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Redmen safety Loris Lucchetta was beaming with pride in the afterm ath of McGill’s exhilarating 20-15 Shaughnessy Cup victory over Concordia in their season opener on Saturday.

Not normally a headline grabber, the hard-working fifth year team captain had earned the adulation of his coaches, team­ mates, and the 3,821 fans on hand at Molson stadium after having a career day.

His three interceptions, including a game-breaking 105 yard touchdown return proved to be decisive in a game which McGill felt was a must-win.

“We had some payback to deliver Concordia” said co-captain Randy Chevrier, making light of McGill’s embarrassing 45-0 loss in last years’ Shrine Bowl. “ We also felt we had to establish ourselves early on in the season. Lucchetta was amazing. He deserves his time in the spotlight, it’s been

five years coming.”

The Redmen looked like they were headed to certain defeat mid-way through the third quarter.

McGill played a lacklustre first half which included two Anand Pillai missed field goals from 12 and 24 yards out, and some sloppy play on both sides of the ball.

Most detrimental was McGill’s offensive ineptitude in the red zone, as Concordia came up with three big goal-line stands in the first half.

The Redmen defence also had trouble finishing its tackles. Bite sized Concordia running back Jean-Michel Paquette was able to amass 119 yards on 15 carries including a couple of big plays early on.

The spark the Redmen needed came from the unassuming Lucchetta who in one fell swoop completely realtered the game’s momentum.

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O n-cam pus violence reached new heights on Friday night when one McGill student was stabbed by another on campus, causing concern among students about their own safety on McGill turf.

According to police sources, at around 1:00 a.m. a McGill student was assaulted by one of his peers with a knife. No informa­ tion about the condition of the victim, nor the whereabouts of the assailant, was avail­ able.

Police have not established a link between this incident and the Four Floors Party being held at the Shatner Building the same night. However, the possibility of such a connection has not been entirely neglected. Patrick Enfield, Gert’s Pub man­ ager and head of SSMU security, describes how many students expecting to go to Four Floors were not allowed into the building after midnight, due to the premises having

reached their legal capacity limit, and con­ siders this as a possible element in the act.

"There were a lot of drunk, angry peo­ ple who didn’t get in," he says. "And that’s definitely a possible factor."

Kona Shio, a McGill student who was denied entry, agrees.

"A lot of people get drunk ahead of time in preparation for the party,” he says.

"And when they don’t get in, they’re furi­ ous. They still have energy, though, and that energy can then be dangerous. You need to step up security in these cases."

Jacques Sztuke, associate director of the D epartm ent of Hum an R esources, describes the extra precautions taken by McGill Security when parties, such as Four Floors, are being held on campus.

"During events like these, we’re always more careful," he says. "We make sure security guards are constantly patrolling the

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Researchers rejoice as funding grants come through McGill comes out on top with Canada Foundation for Innovation

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A dream came true for McGill researchers this past summer, as the uni­ versity received nearly $61 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation for wide-ranging research projects.

McGill presented thirty projects to the CFI, and as many as twenty-two were approved for funding. This was the highest number of any university in the country, with the University of British Columbia coming a close sec­ ond with 19 approved proposals. Many of McGill’s proposals not only promote research within the university, but also facilitate city-wide innovations made possible by partnerships with institu­ tions across Montreal.

The CFI is a non-profit organiza­ tion that was begun by the federal gov­ ernment in 1997 to facilitate various levels of research across the country.

Each year, the CFI is presented with a number of grant proposals from univer­ sities and colleges throughout Canada.

The proposals are read, and funding is determined by one of the ten commit­ tees, each composed of seven or eight multidisciplinary professionals, that make up the CFI board. This year, the board allocated $363 million to 214 infrastructure projects in universities, colleges, hospitals, and non-profit research organizations across Canada.

The money usually goes to the develop­ ment of research facilities in the fields of science, engineering, environment, and health care. This year, however, proposals by the McGill Department of Music and the Montreal Centre for the Study of Language were also approved.

The size of a project, according to Robert Marchessault, a McGill chem­ istry professor and internal CFI grant coordinator, is one of the important fac­ tors the CFI board takes into considera­ tion when distributing funds.

"The projects have to be big," Marchessault explains. "[They] have to...involve a lot of people, and offer global competition for Canada. Thus, every one of the projects takes a lot to get going."

Getting things going has proved difficult for McGill in previous years.

Pierre Bélanger, vice-principal of research at McGill, believes that the university learned a valuable lesson after the first year of competition, in 1999, when the University of Toronto was the recipient of most of the CFI’s funding.

"We were much more pro-active on the second go," he explains. "There are people that know how to write grants for these types of things, and often professors don’t have the time. So, we hired consultants."

Luc Vinet, vice-principal academ­ ic, points out that there are limits to how much consultants alone can accomplish.

"It’s not a magic recipe," he said.

"You don’t just put consultants there and expect to get grants. You have to generate projects, put people together and help huge proposals develop."

Because the funding provided by the CFI works with all levels of the gov­ ernment, the province of Quebec has agreed to match the CFI’s $61 million grant to McGill. In addition, McGill expects to receive an extra 20 per cent match from private institutions and

industrial partners. Hence, the type of legwork Vinet describes has earned the University’s approved proposals a col­ lective amount of around $ 150 million.

"I was just exhilarated to find out what had happened," says Vinet. "It finally paid out, and it’s thrilling to imagine how this will all develop. The challenge we face now is to actually implement the programs."

Marchessault agrees.

"All the projects will go through, but there might be some unforeseen things that keep us from finishing promptly," he says. "The CFI is a dou­ ble edged sword. You’re excited to pro­ pose the projects, but you find it’s going to cost you something in the long run."

Among Marchessault’s concerns are the unanticipated expenses of a pro­ ject, and the possibility that a part of the private funding might not come through, leaving McGill to make up the difference.

Nonetheless, Marchessault remains extremely optimistic about the impact the university’s programs could have on Montreal, and describes his excitement the day he discovered the CFI’s allocation plans.

"We knew the news was coming in on July 26th," he says. "So I went to my office to get the letter [from CFI], As I opened it and started to read, I real­ ized that one after another these were our projects. I couldn’t believe what I was reading. We were ecstatic."

Students question security...

Continued from Page 7 area, and co n cen tratin g th eir efforts in the area of the party."

In this particular case, howev­ er, Mcgill security did not find out about the incident until after the fact.

In addition to campus securi­ ty staff, SSM U’s own security force made earn est effo rts on Friday night to prevent harm from being inflicted on students.

"All bags are checked, all jackets are checked, and anyone who looks like they should be checked is checked," says Enfield.

"If we find a weapon, or some­ thing that we think could be used as a weapon, we immediately con­ fiscate it, and the person carrying it is not allowed in."

Manish Mirwani, a third-year student who attended the party, commented on security’s efforts.

"I thought there was enough security," he says. "They were checking everyone, and there’s not much SSMU security can do about what happens outside the Shatner building."

The Shatner building, in fact, is the only area where SSMU security can do anything.

"W e’re not allow ed to, by law, operate outside the door," Enfield explains. "If an SSMU security guard breaks up, or gets involved in, a fight between two guys, he’s just as bad as the two guys."

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and Events M ark Chodos expressed sim ilar views in dis­ cussing the re sp o n sib ility o f SSMU security in this particular incident. "[The stabbing] happened outside, so I don’t see this exclu­ sively as being a Four Floors problem," he said. "[This is] more about the fact that violence occurs in society. I don’t like it and I don’t know why it occurs."

M irwani’s interpretation of the in cident was sim ilar to Chodos’.

"Some people are just sick in the head, and I don’t understand this hostile mentality," he said.

The fact that such a mentality is now affectin g M cGill has caused a degree of alarm and fear among students.

"An occurrence like this natu­ rally makes you more wary when a large McGill event takes place," Mirwani said. "When students are getting stabbed, and when stu­ dents are causing damage to clubs like 737, naturally you start wor­ rying about security at McGill parties."

Another third-year student, Marium Mani, expressed similar concerns.

"This makes you start won­ dering about your own safety late at night."

The names of both the victim and the perpetrator in the stabbing incident have not been released.

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Contrat de performance sets funding mandates for McGill T h e T r u t h is The Students' Society of McGill University says contract is a wish list

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Criticism of the Contrat de Performance contractual straight jacket, but only a quick B y M ik e B a r c a v lies in its idealism and ambition. Opponents of resolution of the Contrat de Performance will In deliberation of educational fund dis­ the plan highlight many impracticalities stem­ sidestep McGill’s fiscal straight jacket. bursement, the Quebec Ministry of Education ming from proposals directly contrary to is in the process of negotiating performance McGill’s infrastructure.

"It’s a wish list...if all of this happens, contracts setting mandates a university has to Contract Stipulations McGill will immediately become the best uni­ meet to receive funding.

The question of mandates for fund dis­ versity. Without money, none of these things • Increase the num ber o f fu ll­ b ursem ent stem s largely from previous can happen. Considering the infrastructure we tim e graduate and undergradu­ motions by the Ministry of Education to offer have, I don’t see how feasible that is. It is ate students good that it’s optimistic, but at the same time funding to universities on a conditional basis.

"B asically, last year the governm ent it has to be realistic," said Clara Peron VP • M aintain a graduate student University Affairs of o p u la tio n at a p p r o x im a te ly planned to attach strings to the SSMU in criticism 0% o f total 600 million of the 1 billion of McGill’s proposal. they were going to give to A ccording to • M aintain a constant num ber education by setting man­ P eron, many o f the o f Q u e b e c s tu d e n ts e n te r in g dates for universities.” said proposals, while valid from CGEP Wojtek Baraniak president "Considering the infrastructure at face value, underlie of the Students' Society of • Increase the num ber o f cours­ greater problems. The McGill University. we have, I don't see how feasible es taught by regular faculty plan h ig h lig h ts the “This basically came [the agreement] is.

It is good that necessity of increasing down to the governm ent • R e d u c e s t u d e n t u n it s to the number of full time micro managing universi­ it's optimistic, but at the same Faculty R atio to 2 0 to 1 students attending ties," time it has to be realistic."

M cG ill, but as e v i­ C onditional funding • S u sta in cu rren t r a n k in g o f — Clara Peron denced by absurd over­ posed a topic of severe dis­ M c G ill in term s o f research crowding of residences pute in universities as it dollars per professor VP University Affairs and overflow ing lec­ w ould serve to derail tures, M cGill clearly adm inistrative autonomy • S u s t a in h ig h a d m is s io n does not have the through a coerced melding requirements capacity to accommo­ of university and govern­ date its current student ment goals. Recently, con­ • A tta in a 25% in te r n a tio n a l population, let alone an d itio n al fu nding has student p opu lation at graduate evolved from a system where the government even larger one. Furthermore, the plan raises and undergraduate levels sets performance mandates to one wherein the the necessity of hiring more professors while • Increase the num ber o f pro­ university and the Ministry of Education joint­ not taking into regard the hundreds of profes­ fessors from 1 2 3 0 to 1 4 5 0 in ly n eg o tiate a m andate, the C ontrat de sors who will be retiring from McGill in the coming years, leaving room for much discrep­ the next 10 years by hiring 100 Performance. professors a year or the next 10 "Each university will have an étant with ancy.

However according to Shapiro, a certain years the government and each university is respon­ sible for meeting the étant. This is not some degree of ambitiousness, idealism and vague­ • A ch ieve ze ro -d e b t s itu a tio n ‘five year plan’ in the same sense as one of the ness makes for very good spin doctoring in by 2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 3 Soviet Union. It is not that dramatic at all. government negotiations.

"What you hope to do is to be better off in W e’re a high performing institution and we • D ecrease the num ber o f stu­ want to take steps to ensure we stay that way," the future than in the past. No one is under the dents per course illusion that this will be simple or straight-for­ said Bernard Shapiro the principal and vice ward to accomplish.

If you are trying to sus­ chancellor of McGill.

• Resolve salary equity issues The process of creating a viable Contrat tain the maximum possible independence you de Performance currently lies in first round are not going to commit to definitely set goals negotiation between Quebec universities and that have to be accomplished by such an such the Ministry. The essence of the contract will a date. If you are going to make this too con­ not be to target administrative specificity but crete you find yourself in a straight jacket. The set g eneral goals for M cG ill. A lthough intent is to try and say something that is mean­ received funding is based on this mandate, it ingful but at the same time not so concrete as will not be constrained exclusively to fulfill­ to preclude change."

Intricate spin doctoring might sidestep a ing contract stipulations.

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The collaboration will involve the exchange of material, documentation and publication, and possi­ bly joint activities such as press conferences, press releases, publications and protests.

The third draft of the agreement will be brought before Council next week. President of SSMU, Wojtek Baraniak, expects no objections to be raised against the agreement.

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The four World of Chemistry courses, centered around the envi­ ronment, drugs, food, and technolo­ Off-Campus Rez comes up short gy will be offered this year with a slight modification. The environ­ out of order, only after another ten­ B y M a l c o l m G l id e r d a l e ment course will be videotaped and ant noticed the smoke and made an First year students living at the emergency phone call, did the fire­ will be available on the web, bring­ ing lectures to the convenience of Delta Hotel were looking forward fighters know to arrive at the the home. to moving into their new digs last scene.

Although the technology is not D irector of R esidences, week - M cGill Off-Cam pus quite as dramatic as watching the Florence Tracy, said that 3440 Residence Experience housing in lecture in real time, currently pro­ the ghetto. That was, until they saw Durocher is a private apartment viding only sound synchronized building with rooms rented by what they would be living in. with slide changes, it nevertheless McGill on behalf of first year stu­ The front door of one of the represents the genesis of a land­ two elevators at the Terrasse dents. Tracy did not personally mark in educational methodology.

Em bassy, located at 3440 negotiate the agreement with the The infancy stage of on-line landlord.

Building superintendent, Durocher, does not lock and is lectures however is not without its missing a pane of glass. The build­ Denise Malo did not return phone problems. The basis of the idea is predicated on storing some 10,000 slides of course material on a cen­ tral server, and synchronizing sound from the lectures with slide changes to create a m ultimedia slide show for the Microsoft Media Player format. This, however, is dependent exclusively on the assumption that the format of a given lecture sticks closely to elec­ tronic slides, and more importantly utilizes electronic slides as the sole pedagogical tool to ensure that the lecture is captured in its entirety.

Furthermore, a caveat appears in the form of technological limitation — large multimedia files necessi­ tate powerful computers and a cer­ tain uncertainty still exists as to how many users the system can accommodate.

“We are not quite clear how many students can access the sys­ tem at a time, but it basically depends on how powerful the serv­ er is. Two constraints are computer Nothing like a home-cooked meal on the sweet balcony with a view Ben Madge» speed and bandwidth. But the sys­ tem is very scalable. We haven’t calls.

Janice Johnson, who negoti­ ing has no working fire alarms, the done a comprehensive test yet but apartments’ balconies do not lock, ated the deal on the part of McGill, the electrical systems work only was also unavailable for comment. J on previous occasions up to 7 peoWhen asked whether she felt j pie have been able to use the sys­ sporadically, and many rooms are tem at a time,” said William Hsiao swarm ing with cockroaches. 3440 Durocher had failed to meet of the Science U ndergraduate Initially, some students found their expectations with regards to their Society task force, the group agreement with the school, Tracy carpets splattered with feces from responsible for the ‘Harpp Project’ the large flocks of pigeons that had agreed. (on-line lectures).

"Totally...They had promised gained entry through unlocked and The idea of on-line lectures open balconies. The drainage in us a facility that would be appro­ begs two important points: whether many of the apartments is so bad priate to put our students in, and | this system is a precursor to renderthat students cannot bathe without we feel that they didn’t deliver," J ing going to class an obsolescence, she said. risking a flood in their bathroom. and what its general implications to M cGill residences hired a On Monday, as the students education are. began moving in, six people got cleaning contractor to prepare the According to both Hsiao and stuck in one of the buildings' eleva­ rooms for the students about a Professor David Harpp, Chair of tors. According to one of the six, week before they moved in, as well the Department of Chemistry, the the superintendent’s efforts to as a locksmith to ensure that the intent of the project is not to create solve the problem were inadequate. locks were in working order. The a replacement for conventional lec­ "[He said] they were going to absence of fire alarms, however, tures but a convenient and easily try and call the elevator company," was neither considered nor expect­ accessible supplement to it, very said Kate McGregor, U0 Arts stu­ ed. much in the same vein as reserve "We wouldn’t have checked dent. "A m inute later, he said, copies of videotaped lectures.

‘Someone might be on their way the fire alarms," Tracy said. "The I “I think that it represents a convenience. I think that most stu­ soon, we're still trying to get in building owner told us everything was up to par." dents enjoy going to a live lec­ touch with them.’" presently, the landlord is pay­ ture.... something is always better According to McGregor, only live than canned. But there are after a great deal of pleading on the ing to have the building fumigated, times when taking a class off the part of those inside the elevator, as and any carpeting which was computer is a convenience. For well students outside, did the severely stained has been replaced. reviewing purposes it is clearly an superintendent agree to call the fire No mention of fixing the faulty advantage. Furthermore, we can do electrical system or plumbing has department. this at a low cost without having to "The day after the firemen res­ been made thus far, and some have deal with TV studios,” said Harpp cued me and five other people expressed fear for their safety. on the convenience of on-line lec­ Students who feel unable to live in from the elevator, the fire trucks tures. these conditions, however, do not were here again," he continued.

“Personally, I think it’s an "They were pulling up just as I was have the option to cancel their excellent process to help students lease under the term s of their walking into the building." learn.

I think that the people who agreement with McGill.

According to the student, a show up will still show up. It will tenant's oven had been left on and be just like videotapes on reserve. smoke was billowing into the halls.

You have the option of just using Since the building’s fire alarms are these and never going to class, but

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that does not stop people from com­ ing,” said Hsiao.

Questions on the future impli­ cations of the Internet on education oftentimes arrive at the possibility of a system of education that ren­ ders actual attendance obsolete.

Professor Harpp disagrees.

“I don’t think however that this represents an attempt toward dis­ tance education because distance education needs an exam facility in place. That kind of infrastructure needs a lot more work and time, and it is definitely not a feasible option currently. It becomes a con­ venience and the option to review which puts the onus on students for extraction,” he said.

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concentrating on this project as a singular attempt at on-line educa­ tion, but rather using it as a spring­ board into a whole spectrum of technological advances including sound recordings of lectures avail­ able on-line, a slightly more modest but nevertheless useful tool.

Whether one chooses to pop open a bag of Doritos and ‘attend’ the lecture in the convenience of their own home, or take the diligent path of using it to supplement lec­ tures, on-line lectures will indeed be a formidable education method­ ology.

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By endowing this Chair, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation wishes it to become the cornerstone of a Centre for Ethics, Media and Communications at McGill University.

Global media exercise enormous power and cultural influence through their ongoing choices about how information is gathered, processed, interpreted and disseminated. The responsible exercise of that power is the domain of ethics. The University seeks applica­ tions from candidates of international reputation who can provide intellectual leadership fostering and coordinating transdisciplinary research into and teaching about ethics, media and communications.

The holder of the Chair should have the stature and skills to foster and engage in critical analysis of the media and to stimulate public debate. The disciplines from which candidates could be drawn include: communications, cultural studies, ethics, history, journal­ ism, law, management, philosophy, political science, psychology, religious studies and sociology.

McGill University is a world-renowned institution of higher learning located in Montreal, Canada, which is a major international centre of print, broadcast and electronic media.

Salary, conditions and benfits will be determined in consultation with the successful candidate. Preferred commencement is summer 2001. McGill University encourages applications from all qualified candidates and is committed to equity in employment. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed in the first instance to Canadian citizens and permanent resi­ dents of Canada. Applications (accompanied by a complete curricu­ lum vitae) and nominations will be accepted until November 30, 2000 or until the position is filled and should be addressed to: Mr. Claude Ryan, Chair —Beaverbrook Chair Advisory Committee, c/o Office of the Principal and Vice-Principal (Academic), James Administration Buildilng, Room 506, 845 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2T5.

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The instructor, Prof. David Halperin, insists that he never intended to incite any controver­ sy by teaching the English class.

V eteran M ichigan R epublicans W endy Anderson and Suzy A very — who both oppose Halperin's class — will be on the R epublican p a rty ’s ticket in November.

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Avery, the state's tourism director and a former Michigan Republican Party chairwom an, takes a sim ilar v iew p o in t. "I think U of M, by the title of the course and by the way they're p o rtra y in g it, are m aking it provocative. It kind of pushes the envelope," Avery said.

But Halperin says the atten­ tion his class has received is unw arranted. "N either (candi­ date) has attem p ted to get in touch with me or find out what the class is really about," he said on August 29.

Halperin said the university has never put pressure on him to can cel his c la ss. If e ith e r Anderson or Avery were elected, that could change, as both candi­ d ates say they w ould oppose taxpayer funding of the class.

Conceivably, the Board of Regents could take action if a majority support such a motion.

But the board has not in recent memory tried to use its power sanction any academ ic affairs w ithin a U niversity school or

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At the April regents' meet­ ing, U niversity P resident Lee Bollinger came out in support of Halperin's course.

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News from Abroad Private universities allowed in Ontario Accessibility, quality standards chief concerns B y Jo n a th a n C o lfo r d

Ontario high school seniors will soon be able to receive a pri­ vate university education in O ntario, according to the Conservative government’s new policy.

The O ntario M inistry of Education announced that it would allow for the creation of private, for-profit degree-granting institu­ tions as part of its fall report on education entitled "Learning for Life." The MOE said in a press release that it would ensure "that the system is providing students with a full range of choices includ­ ing the introduction of applied degrees at community colleges and new private degree granting insti­ tutions."

The H arris governm ent defended its policy by saying it is ensuring that the system can han­ dle an expected increase in the demand for post-secondary educa­ tion due to population growth, the need to retrain adult workers and to accommodate a double graduat­ ing class in 2003.

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have completed the new 12-year elem entary-secondary program will finish high school at the same time as the last group to complete the old 13-year program.

Privatizing McGill?

McGill University has toyed with the idea of setting up its own private college, and even privatiz­ ing outright, in recent years. A pro­ posal to create McGill College International, a private liberal arts college with a $30,000 tuition, was defeated this sum m er in the Faculty of Arts council.

The council had created an MCI committee to explore the idea in January.

(U -W IR E ) C O LLEG E PARK, Md. - In an effort to pro­ mote safety on college campuses nationwide, a new bill has been introduced in the US Congress to require federally funded colleges and universities to release infor­ mation on student sex offenders to the campus community.

This new legislation, spear­ headed by Representative Matt S alm on, a R ep u b lican from Arizona, is leaving some with a sense of uncertainty and distrust ,w hile leav in g o th ers w ith a strong conviction for privacy rig h ts, and is re k in d lin g an already fiery debate.

S alm on said in a press release that students are not pro­ vided with information about the criminal records of sex offenders on college campuses.

Federal privacy law s cu r­ rently prohibit most colleges and universities from revealing some personal information, including students' Social Security numbers and criminal records.

While it is unclear as to how officials would notify the campus community of sexual offenders, som e stu d en ts said th ere are moral im plications involved in placing a label on an individual.

dards set by the public universi­ ties," said COU President Dr. Ian Clarke.

Clarke also said that the COU expressed a "preference that they not be for-profit," while acknowl­ edging that some COU members would prefer not having private universities at all.

At least in the short to medi­ um term, Ontario private universi­ ties present no threat to public ones in terms of attracting high-achiev­ ing students, commented Clarke.

He also believes that a two-tiered post-secondary education is a long way off in Ontario.

"It takes a long time for a pri­ vate university to develop the kind of reputation [that private A m erican universities have]," Clarke said. "It’s a long term con­ cern.

"A more imminent concern is that it might give the government a reason to reduce [its commitment to funding public post-secondary institutions]."

Ontario currently ranks ninth out of ten provinces in Canada in funding to post-secondary educa­ tion.

F a cu lty and stu d e n t concerns O ntario’s move has raised eyebrows among university offi­ cials and students who are con­ cerned about the quality and acces­ sibility of the soon-to-be-operational private institutions. Ryan Parks, executive director of the Ontario Undergraduate Student

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Alliance, an association represent­ ing about 125,000 Ontario under­ graduate students, is concerned with tuition rates, a lack of quality, and the absence of a guarantee that students at private universities won’t be left in the lurch if their school declares bankruptcy before they graduate.

"We’re [now] worried that the government’s approach will be too hands-off," Parks said.

The C ouncil of O ntario Universities supported the govern­ ment’s report and "did not object" to private universities "provided that [they] meet the quality stan­

"There is a real fine line to consider when looking into the issue because you don't want to invade someone's privacy," said Jam es A llen, a U n iv ersity of Maryland junior business major.

"Our criminal justice system isn't perfect and maybe a person did not really commit a sex crime.

But now they may be branded."

W hile some students view the issue as a matter of the indi­ vidual's privacy, others said this issue is a matter of public safety.

"It's something good for the public to know and I feel like I can protect myself in one way or another if I am made aware of such individuals," said Regina Marasia, a sophomore UM letters and sciences major. "But at the same time, it is up to the individ­ uals to redeem themselves."

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EDITORIAL “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.”

— Vincent Lombardi

Doping the gam es B y N e il S c h n u r b a c h

It is an Olympic year and that means one thing: Canada has been embarrassing herself. Since the Ben Johnson fiasco at the 1988 Olympics, Canada has become the capital of the world for athletes getting caught taking drugs.

This year, before the games even started, two Canadians have been thrown off of Canada's O lym pic team. Canadian hammerthrowing champion Robin Lyons tested positive for norandrosterone, a steroid, and was immediately suspended from the Gam es. In addition, equestrian team member Eric Lamaze was given a lifetime ban for a second positive test for cocaine.

These suspensions can be added to the likes of Olympic gold medalists Silken Laumann and Ross Rebagliati who were caught using drugs. In these last two cases, the athletes were found innocent of their offenses but that does not take away the shame that we feel as Canadians when our finest athletes are caught doping themselves.

But of course, this problem is not limited to Canadian ath­ letes. It seems that amateur sport has become a game of cat and mouse between the drug using athletes and the sanctioning bod­ ies such as the International Olympic Committee. For each new and improved drug test given to athletes, there is a new and improved way to avoid getting caught.

In last year's Tour de France bicycle race, it was announced that the cyclists would be given a new drug test; almost immedi­ ately after the announcement, half of the field dropped out of the race.

The point of the matter is this: athletes are forgetting what the Olympics are really about. The Canadian hammerthrowing champion was not going to get millions of dollars in endorse­ ments whether or not she won the competition, so why not just take part in the competition fairly? Even if she won the gold medal, would she have been able to live with herself after cheat­ ing just to win it?

The problem is that if athletes do not take some sort of per­ formance enhancing substance, they have no real chance of w in­ ning. After all, if everyone else is taking drugs, the ones who are not are at a marked disadvantage. It seems like a classic Catch22. If one takes the drugs, one is at a risk of getting caught - but has a chance to win Olympic gold.

If one does not take the drugs, one runs the risk of training extensively for a futile cause.

The only real solution to this problem is if the athletes reflect on what the O lym pic games are really about. Individuals in every country, no matter what the political or religious majority, pay close attention.

If Olympians would play fairly, we as Canadians could be spared another Ben Johnson. Instead, we are crossing our fingers and hoping that our new National heroes not drug dependent cheaters.

Athletes should realize that this is one of the only times where the world comes together as a whole. Out of respect for that, they should play fairly or not play at all.

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What was the point of this editorial? Hooray — the US is copying our beer commercial. It’s not really surprising considering that the ad is a nice piece of nationalistic bullshit one would expect to arise in the States.

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Ahhh Frosh revered frosh leaders who filled us in week.

Where about the legendary ‘C lapping for w ould we all be Credit.’ Thank goodness for that one!

Then there’s SSMU frosh, the big without it? Yeah, maybe our livers one! Back in the day, we went to La would be a little less swollen, and Ronde for some good old-fashioned maybe we would remember "that guy amusement park action. Of course, La in my frosh group", but c’mon, we all Ronde is getting a little decrepit these miss those heady days of 10 A.M. days, so I don’t think SSMU’s insur­ drunkenness and those w aaay-too- ance policy would cover that trip, but much-information games of "I Never." the getting is still good. This year, the A nother frosh week has come and frosh were entertained with white water gone, and admittedly, it has been three rafting, the classic scavenger hunt, and years since my own wonderful experi­ a Sloan concert! Now flying down a ence, but I think I remember a foggy river at breakneck speeds with jagged thing or two. Now there are those who rocks waiting to slice my head off, or w ould say that frosh week is a dying my hair red and risking arrest by wretched booze-fest with no reedeming tearing down the McGill College street value for anyone except the emergency sign don’t seem too exciting to me, but room residents at RVH who get to try Sloan, hey that justifies frosh right there! But maybe you like that other out new, inventive uses for charcoal. stuff, which is great. Either way, you’ll I disagree. Frosh week, for all its shortcomings, is still the best way to meet cool kids, see the city, and get to meet people. Take faculty frosh. Arts know your alcohol tolerance levels Frosh, for example, was the perfect quite well. Now you tell me, how are opportunity for me to size up the com­ you gonna do that without frosh?

And one other thing, without frosh, petition; you know, whose ass am I going to school in "C om parative how on earth would frosh leaders get Politics" or "Art of Listening." And any action? speaking of ‘Art of Listening’, I would have never found out about that one without some helpful tips from the

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Every year, thousands of freshman to have not one, but two beer students pour into McGill during the tents on the lower field during last week of August, eagerly awaiting Frosh week clearly sends sig­ their immersion to an environment of nals to students that although higher education. Unfortunately, all too alcohol is not mandatory at often, instead of advisement, they get McGill, it's darned near close.

Moreover, in the past year, both alcohol; instead of integration, inebria­ tion. McGill's Frosh week program is a Queen's University and University of disgrace to the school, and should Western Ontario have greatly scaled either be completely overhauled, or down the use of alcohol in their frosh scrapped completely due to the fact that programs in order to keep Alumni sup­ alcohol consumption in these programs port. Queens’ especially ensures that drinking is only done by of-age stu­ has gotten radically out of hand.

If the purpose of a freshmen orien­ dents, and only in m oderation, as tation week is indeed to welcome first reported in last week’s Tribune. It is a year students to a school, and aid them sad day indeed when we must look to at meeting new friends, McGill's pro­ Kingston as an example of how to con­ gram should receive a failing grade. duct ourselves.

The simple reality is that alcohol is Program s that seem largely based around alcohol cause more problems a legal drug, creates physical depen­ than they solve. If the embarassment of dencies, unwanted sexual advances, trashing Club 737 by drunken Science and should not be so effortlessly con­ Frosh wasn't enough, rumours persist doned on a University campus. I con­ of possible legal action by both Ben cede the fact that whatever McGill and Jerry's and Eggspectation against choses to do with its Frosh Week next McGill for Frosh week scavenger hunts year, students will drink, and drink to that damaged their property. McGill excess. Perhaps part of growing up and must ensure that its reputation is not going to U niversity is finding out exactly where our own lines of toler­ tarnished by these sorts of events. ance must be drawn; we must not, how­ I do understand that all frosh week programs do make exceptions for non­ ever, ignore that just because an activi­ drinking students, and the choice to ty is associated with University life, it drink rests with each individual stu­ need not be supported by the dent. Although I applaud these efforts, University.

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Heartless Bitches International right laughable. And it is that social conditioning that Natalie, Maybe I was bored, maybe I Webmaster of Heartless Bitches was just in the mood to be enter­ International (www.heartlessbitchtained, but I can honestly tell you es.com), has undertaken "to shoot that, for 15 minutes, I was thor­ down in flames of articulate feroci­ oughly amused and laughing hard. ty and derision."

An industrious computer sys­ The whole episode carried a ‘freakshow’esque undertone. There is tems engineer, Natalie (she doesn’t just something so strikingly humor­ want her last name published for ous about a 17-year-old girl who reasons of personal security) has chugs beer and then lets a glass- made it in the m ale-dom inated shattering belch rip. And every world of IT. Her resume boasts belch, pretty much regardless of stints with the Canadian Space how loud (though, no doubt, the Agency, and the National Research louder the better) keeps me laugh­ Council, and these days she runs ing just as hard. She chugs, she her own Web Editing and burps, I howl and pass her another Consulting firm. Natalie’s exten­ sive background in IT enabled her beer. to take HBI from its nascent days So, now that the show is over, it’s time to ask why. Why is it so as a Usenet posting forum, to the funny to hear a girl burp? I ’m major site it is today.

Natalie is extremely clear and quite sure that if it were a guy belching, his volume would have to precise elucidating her beef with be deafening to earn plaudits, and society.

"There is a trem endous even then, who cares?

Accordingly, one must conclude amount of gender socialization that social conditioning, a general pink Lego for crying out loud, consensus of what’s acceptable and Barbie computer - and women are what’s not for both guys and girls, still getting the message that if they made me laugh. It is the same con­ are not married with 2 kids by the ditioning that counselled my par­ time they are thirty, they’re not real ents to buy their son a Transformer people" she says.

So what does HBI seek to and their daughter a Barbie. It is the same social conditioning that accomplish? It’s very simple real­ makes the term "housewife" seem ly"It doesn’t seek to do anything dated, yet "househusband" down­ B y I a n S p e ic e l

but get people to question what they are program m ed with," Natalie says. She gladly accredits herself a feminist, as she states in the HBI manifesto, "like bitch, so many societal forces try to deni­ grate or demonize [feminism], to imbue it with negativity."

Accordingly, Natalie has set out to repatriate the terms feminism and bitch. Feminism, in Natalie’s view, "boils down to equality. And that means the right to truly be who you are, regardless of your gender and w ithout expectations based on behaviour, and without discrimina­ tion. And I don’t just mean job discrimination, I mean discrimina­ tion based on behaviour — Oh, that’s not a feminine thing to do."

Having finally escaped the "blame someone else 90’s," HBI’s popularity is indicative that there are people who share N atalie’s scrutinizing and sardonic view about prevalent gender stereotyp­ ing. Indeed, HBI boasts 5000 reg­ istered members, and gets approxi­ mately 20 000 visitors a week.

Despite the popularity and success of HBI, however, Natalie remains rather modest.

"I won’t deny that I’m running the site, and that there are thou­ sands of members involved with it, and that I don’t have some degree of infamy around the site. But the

site is maintained by some very dedicated volunteers. And, in fact, in many respects they hold more of a leadership role than I do," she says.

Indeed, cyber personalities (official title: Bitch Bouncers) like JadeSyren and Fabulana are famil­ iar figures around the site, perpetu­ ating the trademark satire, irony and caricature that pervades every second paragraph you come across.

Links like "Sappy Sites of the Week" and e-mail responses posted in the forum "Weak of the Week" make navigating HBI a very provocative and amusing experi­ ence. And it can be quite cutthroat.

But it’s not like HBI hasn’t put their cards on the table. One need only refer to the manifesto: "If HBI pissed you off instead of making you laugh, then I dare say you identify a little too strongly with the archetypes we poke fun at.

That’s right. We ARE laughing at you.”

When asked w hether HBI could sometimes get a little too cruel, N atalie summed it up metaphorically.

"I don't go down the street looking for people to kick. But if they kick in my front door, I whack them upside the head!"

Those who have received a verbal cuffing, (which is then post­

ed for all to see and laugh at) gen­ erally tend to be men who have taken a personal offence to the opinionated and even aggressive aura HBI exudes. These people usually don’t do their rather dubi­ ous cause any good, because their submissions tend to be grammati­ cally incorrect and generally inco­ herent rants about how HBI is filled with m en-hating bitches.

Again, Natalie (who’s been mar­ ried, divorced and is currently dat­ ing) makes her stance very clear.

"I just got an insult (e-mail submission) that said that I was a lesbian feminist bitch. So I wrote back and I was like, ‘You forgot to put fat, ugly, and zit-infested’ if you’re just going to complete the stereotype here."

Stereotypes and archetypes are the bane of feminists. Natalie has created a forum that now has a vibrant life of its own. HBI is a thriving on-line community, and it has intrinsic value, just like any other social microscope. More than that, however, it’s filled with funny, educated and ironic person­ alities who aren’t afraid to speak their minds. So check them out.

Just maybe you’ll begin to fancy yourself a heartless bitch. www.heartlessbitches.com

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Go easy on the double espressos and the Jolt Cola monitor how much caffeine they consume each day. Consuming up to 600 mg daily isn't considered harmful, and on average, adults consume about 280 mg daily. But more than 600 mg can lead to seri­ ous effects on the central nervous system.

The amount of caffeine can add up quickly though, Hudson says. A cup of cof­ fee, for example, can have from 80 to 350 mg of caf­ feine, depending on the brew.

"Caffeine's pretty avail­ able," she says. "It's sort of like cigarettes."

Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system , heart and blood vessels, which can produce a short­ term increase in energy.

"It's a stim ulant and therefore it speeds up move­ ment of your body,” Hudson says. "Many people say, 1 can't get going in the morning until I've had my coffee.1" The immediate effects of caf­ feine on the body are alertness, increased heart rate, a rise in body temperature and more production of acid by the digestive tract.

C affeine, being a diuretic, can accelerate dehydration. After con­

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(U-WIRE) ARLINGTON, Texas— Mohammed Maraqa considers him­ self a caffeine addict.

The inform ation system s senior starts his day with two cups of coffee and, by the end, has drank three to four soft drinks. He says he craves them for the caffeine.

"If I haven't had one in a while, it tastes very good," Maraqa says. "I feel relieved.”

Health experts say the over­ consumption of caffeine can lead to serious physical and emotional side effects, and possibly dependency.

Researchers have recently suggest­ ed that caffeine in soft drinks is similar to the nicotine in tobacco — an additive intended to hook consumers.

Caffeine, which has a slightly bitter taste, is an organic compound occurring naturally in tea leaves and coffee beans. A synthetic ver­ sion has traditionally been used as flavoring in soft drinks and choco­ late. Caffeine can also be found in some over-the-counter remedies, such as cold medicines.

Ruth Hudson, a health educa­ tion and substance abuse preven­ tion counselor, says people should

suming excessive amounts of caf­ feine, people can become nervous, get headaches, become delirious, have hallucinations or be unable to sleep.

"I’m always amazed at some­

body who drinks coffee and goes to bed," Hudson says. "Their sleep will be shorter."

Biology graduate student Julie Fitch, who has worked as a nurse in an Intensive Care Unit, says she's seen the negative effects on people who consume too much caffeine.

"I had a patient once who drank six pots of coffee a day," she

says. "That's a lot."

Hudson also advises students against depending on caffeine to stay up all night before an exam or project. Even though it seems like a good idea, she says, it can nega­ tively affect students' per­ formance.

"I've had students in the past - especially around finals tim e they've been so concerned about studying, they'll stay up all night drinking coffee," she says. "And when it comes to actual time to take the test - they have become so overstim­ ulated that they will just collapse. You can't wake them, they're exhausted."

Maraqa says he does­ n't use caffeine to stay up studying, but to get an energy boost before a test.

"I drink a lot of a caf­ feine two to three hours prior to the exam," he says.

Chad C heney, pre-nursing sophomore, says he drinks one to two sodas a day —for the taste, not the caffeine.

Sometimes he grabs a soda instead of something healthier, he says, because it's more convenient.

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kind of Powerade, or carbohydrate drink or water," he says.

The average American adult drinks 54.5 gallons of soft drinks per year. For every 16-ounce bottle of water consumed, Am ericans drink the equivalent of a 64-ounce soft drink, according to the National Soft Drink Association.

Addictiveness debate Astrid Nehlig, research direc­ tor at the French National Health and Medical Research Institute at Strasbourg, France, says that at doses of one to three cups of coffee a day, caffeine has no affect on the part of the brain involved with addiction, dependence or reward.

Dr. Nehlig reported last year to the American Chemical Society that his study with laboratory animals shows that, while caffeine in mod­ eration contributes to increased alertness and energy, it does not bring about dependency.

H owever, Johns Hopkins Institute researchers published a report in A ugust's A rchives of Family Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association, that caffeine is "a mildly addictive, m ood-altering drug, one which accounts for the fact that people drink far more sodas with caffeine than without."

Cheney says he can sees how caffeine might be considered addic­ tive.

"At times, I crave a soft drink, just have to have it. When you're drinking other things, it's not that way," he says.

Though the scientific commu­ nity doesn't agree whether caffeine qualifies as an addictive drug, habitual users can experience with­ drawal symptoms, including low energy, headaches, restlessness or insomnia.

Hudson says people can devel­ op a tolerance to caffeine, meaning that it takes more than usual to get the same effect, or can become dependent, meaning that it takes up a lot of a person's thoughts, emo­ tions and activities.

"Not all people who take caf­ feine are dependent," she says.

"Most people are physically depen­ dent and not truly addicted.

Addiction means you can't stop.

Physically dependent means you can stop but you will have with­ drawal symptoms."

Cutting back Hudson says that people should limit their daily consump­ tion of caffeine, whether by coffee, tea, soft drinks or chocolate.

"If you're up to three or four of any one particular category, that might be something to think about cutting back on."

She says she would approach treating caffeine dependency like dependency to any other substance — by coming up with a plan of action on quitting.

"If your habit has been to brew a pot of coffee and sit for two hours drinking before work, maybe do things differently," she says.

"Change your habits."

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Do we Mega-Byte?

Taking a look at McGill's computing facilities B y E lizabeth Z alman

Im agine a cam pus where rows upon rows, floors upon floors, even entire buildings of com puters were available for use. They would be in tip-top, pristine condition, PC or Mac, with your choice of the operating system du jour. Picture the same calibre of computing services, completely independent of your Faculty.

Consider never, ever, having to pay for dial-up access, and available T1 jacks for those who lug laptops to school.

In many schools, this dream is a reality. One such university, which I had the pleasure of attend­ ing, was W orcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Perhaps it was the fact that this school catered solely to Math and Science students, or maybe it was that the Campus Community Center was only referred to as the Campus Computer Center (the CCC).

The library had computers on each level not solely for looking up books. Each dorm was outfitted with a floor of computers, in addi­ tion to the CCC’s 4 floors of com­ puter heaven. There were labs sole­ ly for Maple users in Calculus and for programming code. Each build­ ing, be it the Administration build­ ing or the cafeteria, had a computer room at the very least. DAS was unlimited; the phone call was the only cost. Students had the option of using any Windows 98 program in order to check their email.

WPI is not the greatest school in academia. It ranks somewhere in M iddle A m erica, sandw iched between Harvard and Syracuse.

Due to the University’s status, the assumption would stand that in coming to McGill, the computing

facilities would be as good, if not better, than those of WPI. What a surprise, then, to find that McGill’s computer setup is far worse than WPI. The term ‘inadequate’ springs to mind.

First, there is the m atter of the com puters them ­ selves. The latest m odels found on campus, other than those in the Computer Science and Engineering labs were Power Macs and Pentium I clones. I cannot stress enough the need for top-of-theline models for opti­ mum performance. 'Rememberme?

This is not merely for Internet and downloads, but additionally for the latest software packages of word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.

These are programs that have a def­ inite hand in determ ining your grades.

However, according to Susan C zarnocki, the M anager of the Faculty of Arts computing labs, getting top-of-the-line computers is not quite as easy as one might think. Funding for new equipment is done through the Arts Undergraduate Society, which col­ lects money voluntarily as well as with a mandatory IT fee. Czarnocki also counters that the demand for high-end computers is not as high as one would think, even with 5,000 students in the Faculty of Arts. Since the advent of DSL and cable lines, many students have picked home access over school equipment, sometimes hitting their parents up for the money to buy new computers. Somehow it does not seem fair, that, even with a mandatory fee, students must look

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As for dial-up access, one must pay $10 for a CD containing

the appropriate software. Students are limited to 12 hours a month free, with additional charges of $0.40/hour. The quota is a sore underestimate of time spent on email or the Internet. Suppose you spend a meager 25 min/day online, each day of the month. You will overrun your allotted time by 30 minutes.

In terms of e-mail, the only

way to check it is via w ebm ail.m cgill.ca or through Microsoft Outlook (or some varia­ tion thereof).

Without a UNIX server, those non-CompSci majors who enjoy programming in their free time cannot do so without downloading an inferior Windows-based pro­ gram. Furthermore, what happens if the webmail Internet site is down? The possibility of a web­ page crash is always present. There should be some other method of checking e-mail, so that a crash would not render the campus email system static for hours.

Yet another problem is the fact that the majority of computers in the labs are used for solely check­ ing e-mail. If rooms were built with the slower models to accommodate e-mail users, while higher-end models were reserved for those with actual schoolw ork, there might not be such a crunch.

All of the labs (w ith, the exception of the CS and Engineering labs) are run using Novell Netware and Windows NT. The decision to use Novell is laud­ able, but Windows NT is notori­ ously not, as Microsoft advertises, "...the operating system that never takes sick days." UNIX is more

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Shopping for the Perfect Course Student suggestions on how to choose that last elective B y S hirlee E n gel

You have been pondering this for a while now. After a week of shopping around and driving your­ self nuts, you still haven’t found them... those last three credits that will constitute a full course load.

Then along comes a friend who tells you about a cool class and easy does it... call up the bionic woman on MARS and you’re set.

It may be a big relief to get it out of the way but consider this: how many times have you sat down to study for a final thinking "why did I even take this course in the first place? I don’t even like this stuff!" What your friend liked can sometimes turn out to be an educa­ tional nightmare.

Maybe you found the course yourself. Sure, you may have cracked open a handbook last spring, which many academic advi­ sors warn is grossly out of date by now, and seen some cool blurbs next to a few course titles. Perhaps you have even come across some­ thing that seems just perfect. Key word: seems.

When it comes to course selection, especially in departments where there is much choice involved, the problems are numer­ ous: misconceptions, rumors, a lack of research, and in some cases just plain laziness. Mistakes can often wreak havoc on your academic experience.

Simply scanning the handbook is not enough to make the decision.

Indeed as many students agree, there is a lot more to a course than mere content. Opting for an easy three credits to compliment diffi­ cult required courses and prerequi­ sites is common. Second year arts student Elysia Jacobs took Art of Listening 210-211A/B last year, which according to many students is among a few courses in the cal­ endar coined ‘bird courses.’ These are classes that require significantly less effort than the average elective and serve as great fillers for a tough schedule.

"It was minimal studying and the tests were easy," says Jacobs.

"So I guess you could say it was a bird course."

Another such class, say many

students, is Sexual Ethics 260271A/B, which explores the social construction of sexual identity and of selected issues regarding sexual behaviour. The classes last year were overwhelmingly large due to the popularity of the professor, Mark Shields.

"A good prof makes all the difference," says Jacobs. "An amazing teacher can turn even the driest course into something very interesting." Jacobs says that going to class and taking in material that may otherwise be quite dry can actually be enjoyable because of a professor’s humour and lecture style. Good grades are just a bonus.

However, former student Jeff Thompson warns that an A in a bird course is not necessarily guar­ anteed.

"The biggest myth at McGill is that American Literature II is a bird course because i t ’s m ultiple choice," says the McGill graduate.

"Everyone passes it but no one gets better than a C." Unfortunately not every elec­ tive can be a bird course. Still, there are many interesting classes

to fill a schedule with.

"The best course I’ve taken at McGill was The United States from 1940-1965 [101-377A ]," says Matty Brown, a U2 US history stu­ dent. "Last year I had the most am azing, most inspiring, most knowledgeable prof... he actually makes learning fun and you want to show up to class more than you want to drink."

Many students agree that the quality of the professor is a very crucial factor in course selection, and often becomes the make-orbreak of a class. Other aspects include the weekly schedule of a class, recom m endations from friends, workload, required read­ ings and whether or not there is a final.

Some students in other facul­ ties feel that the most interesting courses are in the arts faculty and that the lack of choice involved in their course selection sometimes prevents them from discovering great electives.

"I really haven’t taken that many cool courses," says U1 Biology student Ryan Melbourne.

"They’re pretty dry and boring."

However every faculty has its benefits. Once prerequisites are out of the way, many students say that they begin to find their studies much more enjoyable. Moreover, required courses can sometimes serve as interesting introductions to upper level material. "[The best course I’ve taken is] Electronics 328... we don’t get to take cool courses in physics at all," says U3 Physics student Julia Marshall. "It’s a required course, but it’s the best of the required courses, I’d say."

Bottom line: do n ’t believe everything you hear. Many stu­ dents suggest that your best bet is to go check each course out seri­ ously yourself. Take advantage of the light workload in these first few weeks and really investigate by reading the syllabus or attending a few more lectures than normal before you make your decision.

Just imagine a world where there would be nothing more pleasurable than going to class.

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Trying to remember why taking that French class at 8:30 a.m. was once a good idea. Freshmen soon learn that college is a lot different than they had planned.

Unfortunately, it can also be m ore stressfu l than they ever imagined.

Psychologists and counselors across the United States report that college students exhibit the classic signs of stress and anxiety as early as the first weeks of the semester.

They note that although anxiety and stress can plague all students, freshmen are more likely to fall victim to its effects.

More than 30 percent of last year's freshmen reported feeling "frequently overw helm ed," according to a survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institu te at the U niversity of C alifo rn ia- Los A ngeles, an increase of 16 percent since 1985.

"Freshmen have been think­ ing about college for years...trying to imagine what it will be like, but they'll be wrong because they can't imagine what it's really like," said Michael Jolkovski, a Washington D.C. psych o lo g ist and form er counselor at American University.

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"It's not MTV. There's a lot of pressure, and they’re anxious about whom they'll meet and what they'll do."

The majority of stress felt by freshmen is attributed to the need to connect with their roommate, find their niche and meet the high expectations set by themselves as well as family members. Incoming freshm en, accustom ed to high grades in high school, are often overwhelm ed by this so-called bigger pond.

"I’m going to miss home. I even got a little nervous when my parents left," said Alex Pogue, a Boston University School for the Arts freshman. "Coming to BU has been the most important thing this summer and everything has been about getting here."

Adjustment issues are not the only cause of stress and anxiety on campus, particularly for returning students.

"For returning students things are not as new, but it all depends on how things are going," Jolkovski said. "Often there is pressure to redeem them selves academically, which is an entirely different set of stresses."

He said many students have difficulty taking their work seri­ ously at the beginning of the year.

"I'm afraid it will take a long time to get back in the swing of

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things, especially after such a relaxing sum m er," said Diane Shifman, a College of General Studies sophomore. "Last year I was more stressed about making friends. This year, the stress is about the work."

Stress and anxiety can take a physical and emotional toll on stu­ dents, with sym ptom s ranging from fatigue to depression.

"A lot of w hat we see is exhaustion, difficulty eating and sleeping, stomach problems and

"Take your time; college is a smorgasbord, not a beer­ drinking contest" general physical tension," Jolkovski said. "Young bodies are robust and can take the stress, but only to a point. There are a lot of ulcers in 20-year-olds and a lot of cases of the flu."

Jolkovski explains that many students can exhibit the more seri­ ous signs of classified anxiety dis­ orders.

"In the college population, the range can last from a couple of weeks to a really serious long-term problem ," Jolkovski said.

"Anxiety disorders are extremely common. T hey’re a part of the human condition and range from

mild to severe."

Anxiety disorders are so com­ mon, in fact, that the American Psychological A ssociation has labeled them the most common emotional disorders, affecting one in nine Americans.

Two anxieties Students are prone to social anxiety and separation anxiety, two conditions that often manifest themselves as a result of a major life change, such as starting col­ lege.

Social anxiety can plague stu­ dents who are faced with speaking in front of a class or even one-onone with a professor. Symptoms include nervousness, blushing, dry mouth and trembling.

Separation anxiety is most commonly associated with chil­ dren who fear being away from their parents. In college, this trans­ lates to homesickness and appre­ hension about living on one's own.

"Homesickness and separa­ tion anxiety among college stu­ dents appears to be more prevalent among the freshmen versus upper­ classm en p o p u latio n s and in females more than males," said Jodi De Luca, a clinical psycholo­ gist and psychology professor at E m bry-R iddle A eronautical

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University in Daytona Beach, Fla. A ccording to De Luca, as stress levels increase, so do feel­ ings of homesickness and separa­ tion anxiety. Through the support of friends and counseling sessions, involvement in campus activities and brief home visits, De Luca believes students can effectively work through most of their anxi­ eties.

Psychologists and counselors believe there are many ways to handle the physical and emotional effects o f stress. At B oston University's Counseling Center, for example, students are encour­ aged to discuss their concerns and not evade the source of anxiety.

"A nxiety peaks around exams, but it is also a problem at the beginning of the year," said Karen Levin, associate director of BU's C ounseling C enter.

"Sometimes, students can’t con­ centrate on work and they fall behind and feel even more depressed. It's a cycle."

Levin says many students are not engaging in the stress-reducing activities they used at home, such as exercise and artistic expression.

Levin suggests continuing these activities, as well as engaging in relaxation techniques and looking for ways to connect socially at school.

Most agree, however, that stu­ dents have to give college life a chance.

"We have to remember that everything big in life takes adjust­ ment," said Patrick Utz, a coun­ selor and psychology professor at the U niversity of Notre Dame.

"You can't judge on the first test or the first semester. Take your time; college is a smorgasbord, not a beer-drinking contest."

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They're just the nerds we think they are An interview with dastardly and daring turntable artist P-Love

By Ian S peicel

P-Love, a scratch DJ and recent M cGill alumnus, was in town to play a Bullfrog show with the renowned turntablist Eric San (a.k.a. Kid Koala). Last week, the Trib caught up with P-Love, who, by now, is ro ckin ’ Eurocrowds alongside Kid Koala on the Ninja Tune 10th anniversary tour.

T ribune: So you’re starting off in Europe. Going to Paris and such...

P-Love: This is actually the last leg of the tour. We started in March in Europe to promote the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome album.

That went through Europe and the States for a couple months. And then we did festivals in July. This is just part of the Ninja 10th anniver­ sary tour.

T: How’s Europe crowds?

P: Europe crowds are way dif­ ferent than American crowds.

T: Are they cheese?

P: It depends on where in Europe. Like in Germany, the peo­ ple dug it, but they didn’t show it during the show. They kinda just stood there like, "Ve vant to be impressed.'1But then after, if it was a good show, they go crazy. It’s

just like "jah!” and then there’ll be an after party and everybody will start partying.

T: So they don’t fuck around, they just want to hear the music, undistorted.

P: Exactly. And then they want to party.

T: It’s pretty cool to be touring the world with folk like Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, Food and Strictly Kev. How’d it happen?

P: I don’t know. I never set out to say, "I wanna tour the world playing." I finished school [McGill, B.Mus.] in December, I was pack­ ing my car when Eric called and said, "I’m going off on tour soon. I might need another pair of hands.

You wanna join me?" And I was like, "alright," so I started emptying my car and moving back into my apartment.

T: So how long have you known Eric?

P: Like three years. I used to go see Public Enema play, Bullfrog’s previous incarnation, and I met him right when he got signed. I had his mix tape for a while. But I met him at a show. I just went up to him and I’m like, "Hey I like your stuff, I think it’s cool." I told him I spun and he’s like, "Oh, we should jam some­

time." And he called me up like a year later.

T: So he had never heard you.

Weren’t you kinda like, "Damn!

Kid Koala's pretty good." Or you just had confidence in your own abilities?

P: Naw, I don’t know. I was just doin' my thing, whatever. I think the DJ mentality with scratch DJ’s is, you spend so much time in your basem ent, ju st hours and hours trying to land a juggle or whatever, so like, when you jam with someone else, it's just all about exchanging ideas.

T: Would you say he’s kind of a nerd?

P: W e’re all nerds! Anyone who obsesses about vinyl. (Titters.)

Like, I wouldn’t say quote me on that, cause he might kick my ass, but we’re all nerds. You kinda have to be. It’s kinda mandatory ‘cause it involves so much time. It’s all about looking through records, going to garage sales, spending hours. I guess it’s kinda like play­ ing an instrument—you can always draw those parallels. It may have something to do about spending so much time alone that our social skills are underdeveloped. So we go out to the real world and...

T: It’s like all bright and shit?

Anna Karenina, where are you now?

Som etimes the play is better than the book B y Z ubin J. D river

For Tolstoy fans, the current­ ly showing production of Anna Karenina is a must-see. Die-hard purists must be w arned, though, that the au th o r of the play is not the famous Russian.

Rather, it’s an ad a p ta ­ tion by p lay w rig h t H e l e n Edmundson that lends a fresh inter­ pretation to a classic tale.

T h e play stays true to the original in two key ways: first, it follows the novel’s plot quite closely, and second, it is heavily dramatic. In fact, at its weightiest moments, the produc­ tion threatens to sink into the mushy quicksand depths of melo­ drama.

the lig h tin g helps to create a potent, volatile moodscape that accentuates Anna Karenina’s dra­ matic content with the delicate handling that it demands.

Indeed, let there be no q u estio n : the novel’s plot is de ma n d i n g .

W hile its them es still have great rel­ evance, many o f the values, issu es, q u e s­ tio n s, and manners that it deals with are products o f a past era.

Although Tolstoy’s novel is widely co n sid ered a tim eless clas­ m inim alist, involving a naked sic, some might say that its pages stage with very few props and could use a dusting off. The spare use of sound clips to inten­ novel’s tragic end is hinged on a more tragic (and extremely frus­ sify some scenes. trating) lack of com m unication The p la y ’s best technical aspect is its lighting. Working in between Anna and Vronsky (her tandem with sound clips, scene Continued on Page 22 changes and plot developments,

Fortunately, the play is saved from this fate by its funky newage staging. Director Gabrielle Soskin has let competent actors carry this production. The set is

Lights...

P: Yeah, "Ahhh!" We’re not out all night partying. We might be up until six in the morning, but we’d be, like, trying to practice one combo.

T: Right. And those folk who only see the hype and the glory, they don’t know about the 8000 hours you spend getting it.

P: Yeah, exactly. It’s not really something people would be inter­ ested in, but you know most scratch DJ’s relate to each other’s pain in that sense. They know. I’ll meet a scratch DJ from Amsterdam, and it’s like, "I spent eight hours in my basement too. I worked a stupid McJob for two years to buy my tables too!"

T: Are you going to be doing this full time?

P: I don’t know, I don’t think so. Tour ends in November and then I’m moving back to New York just to hide out for a bit. Start pay­ ing off my student loans.

T: The only negative com­ ments coming about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome are that some of the tunes are just random scratches, like that tune "like irregular chick­ ens". What do you think about that?

P: I don’t know. I don’t really think it’s something to get really

down and dissect. At the end of the day, it’s Eric scratching chickens.

It’s not supposed to be technical.

It’s like, "Hey, let’s see what hap­ pens if you take this rhythm of a chicken scratching and put it in a totally different context."

T: ‘Cause at heart, he’s really a goof and he’s just goofing with the records?

P: Yeah. T hat’s what the album is—playing around with records. There is no mission state­ ment, there’s no intent to change the way people think.

T: Then, it’s like a big joke on all of us getting out our pens and paper and analyzing the thing?

P: It’s not even that, it’s just an album about playing the turntables.

T: That’s it, eh?

P: That’s it.

T: Just accept it?

P: If you like it, you vibe off it. If it makes you laugh, then that’s cool. If you don’t like it, you think it sucks shit, then it comes with a comic book! So whatever.

T: You think turntables are here to stay?

P: I don’t know if it has the longevity factor of a trumpet, or like something that been mentioned in biblical stories. I don’t know. It’s a good question.

TRIBpicks This Week Tuesday, Septem ber 12th

Interested in a yiddish musical about the Great Houdini ? Of course you are. It plays at the Monument National. Call 739-7944 for info and read our review in next week's issue.

W ednesday, Septem ber 13th

l got into an unpleasant argument with Joseph Arthur regard­ ing colonialism last October, but I still recommend you check him out when he brings his multi-coloured guitar and his looper to the Cabaret. You can see for yourself why Peter Gabriel and Ben Harper are such big fans. Just don't get him started on American patriotism. Call 790-1245 for tickets and into.

Thursday, Septem ber 14th

For $7, you can catch P.S. 69 at the Centaur Theatre. It’s about a substitute teacher who moonlights as...you guessed it. a stripper, staring the winner of the Best Comedy Award ot the Montreal Fringe Festival. The Centaur warns that there will be stripping on stage. Like that will deter any of you from going.

Friday, Septem ber 15th

Drool over Jude Law on the big screen tonight as Cinema du Parc screens Existenz. as part of its Cronenberg retrospective.

Saturday, Septem ber 16th

Texan Jimmy LaFave brings his dirty-boots tolk rock to the Cabaret tonight. His latest CD is a double disk tribute to Americana music which features tunes by Guthrie. Dylan.

Springsteen as well as some original stuff. Also watch tor opening act Pigeon-Hole, winners of the CHOM-L'ESPRIT contest (think Montreal-wide Battle of the Bands). Their music is an innovative breed of folk that will make you want to run out and buy their recently released Versus Gravity.

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East of campus: The three little Asian food joints on St. Laurent

By G

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Maybe you've been to one of the little Asian restaurants on St. Laurent between Roy and Prince Arthur. More likely you have not.

You've almost certainly passed them. Small, neat, unobtrusive, and relatively new, they are easy to miss.

In a region awash with garish pizza parlours and neon shish taouk men, people walk past like zombies, drawn to the bright lights and prim ary colours of other food establishm ents. Even those people seeking Asian food often fail to enter these more humble seeming din­ ing areas, instead seek­ ing fame and glory further down the block at Thai Express or Just Noodles.

M eanwhile, inside of each one of the little restaurants, a soli­ tary server looks on, hoping, pray­ ing that one of the plebeian masses will pause, perhaps return their lonely gaze, and maybe, with a gargantuan stroke of luck, even enter the building. These are the smaller Asian restaurants on St.

Laurent: the Restaurant Parfums D'Asie, Le Gourmet D'Orient and even, to a lesser extent, Sushi and Dumplings. These are the neglect­ ed, the overlooked, the forgotten.

And perhaps there's a reason why.

I visited all three to find out.

Le Gourmet d'Orient Armed with $12 (a pre-chosen amount) and an open mind, I tried out Le Gourm et D 'O rient first. Located at 3766 St. Laurent, ju st above Pins, it is the n o rth ­ ernmost e s ta b lis h ­ ment of the restaurants I checked out, and also the most taste­ Mike Colwell fully deco­ rated: newly swept tiles and a cool bamboo rail­ ing along the front of the window.

The menu at Le Gourmet is a curious creation, offering foods from many regions of Asia.

There's the standard Szechuan fare, but also Cantonese, Japanese, and Thai. Prices are reasonable$2.50 for soups, between $2.50 and $6 for "appertizers", and from $6.50 to $8.00 for mains.

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My companion and I decided on miso soup to start with, fol­ lowed by Tempura Don (a Japanese dish of fried veggies and shrim ps, steam ed rice and teriyaki sauce) and Phad Thai (much eaten m eal in Thailand consisting o f noodles in a peanuty fish sauce, tossed w ith egg, shrimp, tofu, some veggies and com ­ monly served with a lime slice).

A lthough the restaurant does not profess to be of the fusion variety, the "miso" soup tasted a lot like conventional wonton soup broth m ixed with a dash o f soybean p aste and some firm , grainy chunks (not slippery, squishy) cubes of tofu. Hardly a conven­ tional miso, but edible if you like supersalty chicken broth and can bear the chewy chunks afloat therein. The tempura dish was not the light, melt-in-your-mouth treat we had hoped for, nor was the teriyaki sauce what I call teriyaki sauce, but at least the portion was generous. So generous, in fact, that we barely dug into the Phad Thai, certainly the best dish of the three though still not excellent by any standards.

The halved cost of the meal was $9.75 before tip. I walked out feeling rather indifferent and very full.

Parfums D'Asie The follow ing day I found myself sitting with three friends at Parfum s D 'A sie (3754 St. Laurent), two doors down from Le Gourmet. Although smaller and

lacking any stylish bamboo, it too was spic and span. The unpreten­ tious menu at Parfum s proffers both Cantonese and Vietnamese dishes for prices similar to those at Le Gourmet, and, as at the latter, tax is included.

I meal with a reason­ ably nice wonton soup which arrived piping hot and brim m ing with dumplings. My plat prin cip al was a Mike Colwell C antonese dish of chicken, ginger and green onions.

I assumed that the rice offered alongside was part of the deal as the chicken was fairly sparing, but come the bill I was charged for it.

A whole buck fifty. Lame. In addi­ tion to my wimpy chicken dish (which was actually yummy, truth be told), I also tasted a well-bal­ anced beef and rice noodle cre­ ation and some shrimp fried rice, b o t h palatable.

Our eager server brought every sin­ gle dish at a different tim e, but luckily there were s o m e

humourous elevator-jazz rendi­ tions of Christmas carols playing which kept us entertained as we waited.

While it's certainly not bound to be the pride of the East in the West, Parfums D'Asie seems to

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accomplish about as much as it is im plied it w ould by its plain décor: simple, tasty food that isn't worth writing home about but does the trick in the case of an MSG craving. My total was $9.50 before tip.

Sushi and Dumplings Further my south and across the began street, I continued my journey at Sushi and Dumplings (3681 St. Laurent). The one server there seemed taken aback that I wanted to sit down. Given the nature of the seating area, I rather surprised myself, too. All three places I vis­ ited were quick on the draw with water, but at Sushi and Dumplings I got warm water in a charming styrofoam cup. W hile far from thrilled with this arrangement, my sp irits were lifted by the fun k y /p o p p y /jazzy m usical sty lings o f D avid Tao, who, I learn ed that day, is a fam ous Chinese musician.

At Sushi and D um plings I had... sushi and dumplings. The sushi was OK. The rice in my avo­ cado maki was well-sea­ soned and not too m ushy, but the roll was p retty m eager for $3.50. The pan-fried chicken d u m p lin g s , however, w ere w orth Mike Colwell every cent of the $4.50 they cost me. They came steaming hot, perfectly moist and garlicky, accompanied by a slick, tangy brown sauce. Actually, my mouth is watering as I think about them. Tax was not included this time, and even though I had con­ siderably less food than at either of the first two places, my bill was $9.20.

Sushi and Dumplings seems like a different sort of place than the other two. Perhaps this is a result of being situated closer to the heart of the St. Laurent throng, right in the middle of the block that runs between Pins and Prince Arthur. Styrofoam and way-in-theback seating suck, but the food isn't bad. For take-out purposes, it makes the cut. (Call 848-9474).

As for the other two restau­ rants I stopped at on my petit tour d'Asie, one could do worse than to check them out. W hile neither were mindblowingly memorable, if you happen to find yourself nearby with a tenner, a twoonie and an hour to spare, you might give them a whirl. There's a decent chance that you'll emerge full, or at least satisfied. There's also a chance that you'll feel good about yourself for helping out an honest, subtly presented establishment try­ ing to survive the gaudiness and the money-grubbing of the restau­ rant industry. T here's also a chance that you might not go back.

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and a refreshing songwriter. His latest album, Je dis Aime, features a fluid production and a variety of styles, from the sing-along camp song to the string-infused title track written by his grandmother.

He earns extra brow nie points with me for using his falsetto in a manner that, for once, is not remi­ n isc e n t o f T hom Y o rk e ’s. If you’re a Cure fan, you’ll particu­ larly enjoy M ’s translated version of “Close to Me”.

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There’s much more to fran­ cophone music than Céline Dion and Bon Jovi k n o c k -o ffs, you know. Yet to the untrained ear, it might be hard to figure out what’s worth listening to. To help you cross the cultural-divide and lib­ erate good music from the chains of linguistic enslavement, here’s an in tro d u c tio n to c ritic a lly acclaimed francophone artists you can listen to without fear of being ridiculed by the locals.

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W o lfin g it d o w n We might as well start with the favourite singer of an entire generation of Quebec kids, Jean Leloup. Johnny the W olf can do a b so lu te ly no w ro n g in th is province. And why should he?

H e’s been able to achieve both critical and popular success by b ein g th e m ost ic o n o c la s tic , u n p re d ic ta b le and in n o v a tiv e musician around. During a threem onth stin t in e le c tric ity depraved Togo, he was forced to produce less-wordy music and to rely on clearer, groo v ier songstructures to entertain his hosts who barely understood a word of French. Leloup then returned to M o n trea l and re c o rd e d Les Fourmis, by far his most melodic album. To fully understand the Leloup cult, I suggest you try to catch one o f his n in e (m o stly sold-out) stripped-down shows at the Spectrum this fall. I personal­ ly guarantee you’ll feel the love in the room.

D ia l M If you’re interested in slight­ ly m ore c h e e rfu l m u sic, then allo w m e to rec o m m en d M. Mathieu Chédid was already an established guitarist in Sinclair’s funk band before he decided to go

solo with the M moniker. Beyond the kitschy outfits and the silly hairdo, M is a strong m usician

Another funny little French man worth listening to is the fem­ ininely-named Katerine. He had a v id eo on h eavy ro ta tio n on Musique Plus this summer for his song “Je vous emmerde”, but that was one very annoying song. I was completely prepared to dis­ like him based on that song. Still, I saw him during the Francofolies show and his groovy footwork, classy outfit and dry wit won me over. Oh, and the m usic w as good. If you lik e Tom W aits, Stereolab, M om us or Cornelius, then this guy is for you. E x p ect an a c o u stic release in the fall, but until th en you can get Les Créatures, the album on which h e’s backed by experim ental jazz band The R ecylcers. It featu res songs lik e “P oulet n .7 2 8 1 2 0 ,” a love song to the chicken he had for lunch, or “J’ai 30 ans,” a list of everything he hasn’t done in his first 30 years (“I’ve never let my beard grow or

d re sse d lik e a w o m an .” ) A nd even if you do n ’t understand a w ord he sin g s, i t ’s s till very entertaining.

H a rd y as th e y com e D avid B ow ie, speaking o f Françoise H ardy, said th at “every male in the world, and a number of females also, were pas­

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McCartney when she wasn’t busy recording m élancolie soft-pop.

She was even friends w ith the n o to rio u sly a n ti-so c ia l N ick D rake (the sin g e r o f the Pink M oon song in the V olksw agen c o m m e rc ia l). A nd s h e ’s aged beautifully. In recent years she’s done duets with Blur and Air, and can c o u n t th e m em bers o f Radiohead among her fans. On h er m o st re c e n t alb u m , C lair O bscur, re le a s e d th is sp rin g , you’ll find a surprising duet with Iggy Pop (a cover o f an B illie H o llid a y sta n d a rd ), a F ren ch adaptation of Django Reinhardt’s “T e a rs ” , and a song by the E v erley B ro th e rs. Q u ietly en ch an tin g , this is the p erfect album for a rainy Sunday after­ noon.

I could go on for pages, but I ’ll ju s t b rie fly m ention som e other acts you might want to pay attention to: Montreal-based band Muzion, who rose out of the hip-hop underground but still aren’t selling as many records as I’d like them to; Jorane, the singing-cellist who sounds a whole lot like Tori Amos to me but is loved by the critics; and finally Caféine, an ener­ getic cross betw een D anko Jones, David Bowie and the S to o g es. So w h at are you waiting for? Plug in, and tune out.

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Anna K. speaks to Tolstoy

A Noteworthy Adventure

By G

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C arter

W alk in g p a st th e R edpath Library last Thursday afternoon, the raucous noise of OAP was tem­ porarily superceded by a strange, angelic voice and ripples of piano.

In trig u e d , I fo llo w e d m y ears through two large wooden doors and was delighted to find a free recital occurring.

For the next hour and twenty minutes I sat and listened intently, entranced , in the cool and airy beauty of Redpath Hall. Out of the mouth of the girl on stage issued te c h n ic a lly fla w le ss c la ssic a l music. She performed relentlessly, tackling difficult pieces in several languages — the standard English, Italian, French and German, but also Russian. I was impressed.

Curiously, the hall was nearly empty.

The voice soloist was Maggey W h ite, a ta ll and stu n n in g W agnerian soprano. The recital being given was the final part of the m arking c rite rio n fo r her B ach elo r o f M usic in V oice Performance.

S peak in g to her a fte r the show, I was amazed to learn that free recitals such as hers happen frequently at McGill, but are often quite poorly attended. Ms. White was lucky enough to have some close friends and her parents ore-

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sent, but she told me tales of other recitals where the music professors judging the performances are the sole au d ien ce m em bers. T his seems, to me, a tragedy.

If other music students are as prodigiously talented as Ms. White (and she assures me that some are) then every student should jump at the opportunity to hear amazing music for free, as well as support­ ing the McGill community.

Post-recital, I emerged from the discreet, sequestered splendour o f R ed p ath H all once again.

Instantly, my senses were assaulted by the harsh sunlight, the carnival stench o f street-vendor hotdogs and the blare from the OAP. As I walked away, busy peo­ ple hurried by, a frisbee streaked through my peripheral vision on the lo w er fie ld , and my w atch beeped to signal the hour. Slowly, the stoic tranquility of the hall and the lovely, floating music I had experienced began to fade from my mind, replaced by thoughts of text­ books and dinner. But before the m em ory le ft me c o m p letely , I sm iled to think I could go back again.

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lover), one that seems quite unre­ alistic by today’s open standards.

Looking at things positively, the plot acts as an indictment of the time in question. It shows that the V ictorian perio d ’s stringent code of propriety is too strict - so strict that it ends up destroying Anna. From another perspective, though, it's ju st too clichéd: the adulterous w om an kills h erself w h ile the c o n te m p la tiv e m ale who gets married, loves peasants, and finds God is the happy hero.

The play d ep arts from the book by employing a hefty dose of magic realism, both to demonstrate its themes, and to move the action along from scene to scene.

For instance, take the part of the novel where Vronsky (played by Brendan Stitchman) loses a close horse race b ecause his h o rse ’s back gets broken going over a ju m p n ear the end o f the race w h ile A n n a is w a tc h in g w ith em pathie excitem ent and agita­ tion. The play m akes this part into a steamy, provocative pseu­ d o -se x sc e n e in w h ich A nna (A n an a R y d v a ld ) is th e h o rse who is being ridden by her lover from behind. Can anyone guess w hose sp iritu al b ackbone gets broken at the end of this scene?

Anna's tough, though. One of her most stabilizing influences in th e p la y is L e v in (A d ria n

F ree

Burhop), with whom she commu­ nicates through a kind o f soulspeak, which also serves to move along the story being told.

These tw o protagonists are on stage for at least 85% of the show, w hether w atching, telling of, or participating in the action.

Their dialogue serves as narration th ro u g h u se o f th e c o n s ta n t re fra in , u tte re d by one to the o ther, "L evin/A nna, w here are you now?" at which point whoev­ er is addressed answers by narrat­ ing the beg in n in g o f the scene that is to come. In this way the two constantly gauge their moral, spiritual, sexual, and em otional progress at a level that runs far deeper than the rest o f the dia­ logue in the play.

A fa sc in a tin g tw ist is th at about three quarters o f the way through, view ers see A nna and Levin, the characters, meeting for

the first time, even as they have b een ta lk in g to e a c h o th e r in some subconscious way through­ out the production.

The innovative, bizarre, and fascinating thread of magic real­ ism is unquestionably the factor that makes Edm undson's adapta­ tion o f Anna Karenina captivat­ ing; it bridges a time-culture gap, m aking the them es relevant and applicable to today's audience. If one were to ask the same ques­ tion of Tolstoy’s work that Anna and Levin keep repeating to each other— where are you now— this review er can safely answ er that Anna Karenina is alive and well, k ic k in ’ it d ram a sty les on the stage o f the Calixa-Lavallée the­ atre.

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Shit, Bitch! - Livin' the life of American Pimp B y G o r d o n S u th erla n d

“W hat I got to te ll you is m ore p o w erfu l than a h ead on c o llisio n at 90 m iles p e r h o u r down a one way stre e t... I ’m a m o th e rfu c k in ’ p im p .”

Rosebudd, pimp, retired after 20 years.

So b eg in s A m erican Pim p, the first d ocum entary from the twin quasars o f rough-ass film m ak in g , A lb e rt an d A lle n H ughes. S tay in g tru e to th e ir roots and adding to their history o f m ak in g

movies a b o u t th e b la c k c u l­ tu ral exper i e n c e (M enace II

Society; D e a d Presidents), A m e r ic a n

P i m p explores the most mythi­ cal figure in black urban culture: the pimp.

A spare yet striking

f i l m , A m e ric a n Pimp exam­ ines with an unflinching eye the many facets of pimping. Through in depth interviews with 16 estab­ lished pimps (one is over 70 years old) and 4 prostitutes, the Hughes brothers bring pimping out of the surreal w orld o f b lax p lo ita tio n movies like Willie Dynamite and The Mack and into your face. At tim es sh o ck in g , h ila rio u s, and sad, the ch aracters have depth, and bring to life the harshness of a business where sex is a product, love is equated with money, and the players take time to remember prostitutes’ birthdays but also to beat them when they are out of line.

W h at s e ts th is film a p a rt from the Hughes brothers’ previ­ ous outings is not only that it ’s non-fiction story, but that for the two years o f its making, it was a labour of love. The Hughes spent upwards o f one hundred thousand d o llars o f th e ir ow n m oney to tra v e l a ro u n d A m e ric a and unearth the essence of pimpdom.

The brothers had no major studio backing: Albert filmed everything with a hand-held 16mm cam era w hile brother A llen w orked the sound and asked questions for the interviews.

The ro u g h n e ss o f th e film o n ly ad d s to its im p a c t as it explores the many angles of what it m eans to be a pim p. It w ill come as a surprise to m any that the pimpin’ business is still going strong, and many pimps live, act, and dress ju st like you see them on TV. (Also, one of the intervie­

wees looked like Dennis Rodman, an d a few o th e rs m ig h t be M a n a g e m e n t s tu d e n ts ). T he world of the pimp, or player, or m ack is entirely d ifferent from the one that most live in, with its own values, language, and The International Players Conference who gives out the annual “Pimp of the Year Award.”

Behind the almost cartoonish exterior lies an often brutal reality and a striking cultural relevance though, and through this film it becom es clear that the pim ping

business, whether or not m o st p e o p le see it as im m o ral, d is ­ g u s tin g , or abusive, is dis-

t i l l e d American con­ su m er cu ltu re ideals at work.

T he p im p s in th is film are

colourful, in te llig e n t, self-made men who are trying to liv e the

American d ream - m o s t g rew up p o o r in th e g h e tto and fo u n d pimping to be a way to earn the riches and toys that their parents could never give them. Money is the only thing that matters in the pursuit of this lifestyle, and it is clear in this film that a pimp only ‘lo v e s ’ h is ho as lo n g as she brings in the dough.

U ltim ately, despite the fact th at m any may find this film ’s ra w n e ss s h o c k in g o r ev en detestable, it gets two gold-ringed th u m b s up. T h e re ’s som ething here for everyone: the artsy types will enjoy the cultural exposé and the fartsy types w ill get a good la u g h e v e ry tim e one o f the smooth talkin’ pimps rhymes jew ­ elry with toolery. At first glance, it looks like the Hughes brothers go a little to light on a business that involves abuse and exploita­ tion, but they are not in the least condoning the practice. One can see the transition that the film ­ m a k e rs go th ro u g h , fro m th e beginning of the story where the Pimp comes off as a real winning guy, to the end, w here the film shows the stark disillusionm ent that lies at the core o f everyone p lay in g the gam e - pim ps and prostitutes alike. American Pimp m erely tries to look beyond the flam boyance: under the surface lies a profound story that covers the who, what, where, and why of the co m p lex re la tio n sh ip s and rules in the pimp game.

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Equalizer at OAP B y Jo sé Lo u r en ç o

Every year at the Open A ir Pub, M cGill students young and old are blessed with musical acts on the stag e from early in the morning to early on in the evening.

Some of these musicians are cut­ ting their teeth on the OAP stage, some are on their last legs. There are bands you’ll like, love and hate.

And then, there’s Equalizer.

"Would you please get down off the speaker? Now. Let's - - // go.

— OAP Security The six-piece group kicked the floor out from under the OAP and raised everyone’s spirits with a melodic blend of reggae and ska on Thursday afternoon. You show me one person at OAP that w asn’t smiling at the smooth delivery of the tunes that were laid out, and I’ll show you som eone w ho liv es alone, takes pastry very seriously, and listens exclusively to Devo because “everything else is crap”.

Even the Three Bares were nod­ ding their heads with the beat.

Now, I could keep going on about how much fun the show was, but I figure a full show review is not going to accomplish much in terms of stimulating interest in the band. If you were there, you saw it; if you weren’t there, the glowing praise that I would have written would only make you feel bad for having missed it. And in any case, it’s only one opinion. Instead, I surreptitiously wandered around OAP and listened to what people were saying about Equalizer as the band was playing. Here goes: “Aren’t they so good? I saw them at Q-Stix last May for a CD release and it w as, like, really steamy and crowded. There were, like, hundreds of people there.” Girl in a tank top.

“This is chill. These guys are rad.” - Guy smoking a hookah.

“D am n! D id you h ear th at solo? That guy is pretty rad. Man, I suck at guitar. Listening to guys who can solo makes me feel like... (it became incom prehensible)” Guy who sucks at guitar.

“Wow. That was so good. It’s, like, the songs they were playing are what summer’s all about. Do they have a C D ?” - G irl in a Parasuco shirt.

“Y eah.” (*nod*nod*nod*) Guy in sandals and pants.

“There’s a lot hippies rocking out to this band, dude. Like that guy - (m otioning to guy) dude, you’re just not funky enough.” Ironically, a hippie girl with cam-

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“You see, what I want to know is if the lead singer speaks in a Jamaican accent, too. You know, when he’s not on stage. Like when he calls home, do his parents get all confused?” - The guy who said this was joking (a moment earlier, he was complimenting the vocals). “ ...this kind o f m usic gives OAP a nice, sum m er feeling.” Guy who was in bio lab with me in first year but who now pretends we don’t know each other.

“I loved how the trumpet play­ er and the saxophone player were dancing in sync. They’re so hot.

“I know. If the trumpet player took his shirt o ff it w ould have been a lot better. “ O h m i g o d ! * sq u eal!*squeal!*” - Two girls talk in g about R ay and M ikey Murray.

“Thump iddy thum p thump.

Bump thump. Tikka tikka thump.

Bum p B um p. Pop P o p !” - Guy really engrossed in the drumming.

“Is all their stuff original? It can’t be. Is it? They’re so good.” Girl who just can’t believe it.

“Would you please get down off the speaker? Now. Let’s go.” OAP security.

"This is chill. These guys are rad."

Guy smoking a hookah —

“Where are these guys from?

They must have been expensive to book.” - Guy making small talk to someone he just met.

“The thing about reggae is that it was Jamaica’s pop music. It was seen as the voice of the oppressed.

The music is uplifting, yet remains mournful. It’s a strange dichotomy

unseen in most styles of music...the chunka-chunka sound you’re talk­ ing about comes from strumming on the upbeat. In most music the guitarist will strum on the down beat, on the beat, whereas reggae requires more technical tim ing.

Everyone talks about Bob Marley being the b est reggae m usician ever, but I actually prefer Peter Tosh.” - Pretentious reggae guy.

“Are you eavesdropping on our co n v ersatio n ?!” - Guy who noticed me.

“I’ve been at OAP every day this week, minimum five hours a

'You show me one person that wasn't smiling at the smooth delivery of the tunes, and I'll show you someone who takes pastry very seriously and listens exclusively to Devo." day. These guys are the best I’ve seen. W hat’s th eir name again?

Equalizer? They are talented peo­ ple. It’s not just the music, though.

T h e re ’s so m eth in g about th e ir composure up there. You can tell that they’re comfortable with the m usic, w ith p la y in g to g eth er.

They’re not afraid to be on stage and do w hat th ey do. I c a n ’t believe I’m seeing them for free.” Guy that I talked to instead of just eavesdropping.

A t this point I was tired of sneaking around and wanted to sit on the grass with some friends and listen to the show. So I did. Keep yo u r eyes and ears open for Equalizer shows coming up in a neighbourhood near you.

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Redmen soccer set to make another run at CIAU Nationals Team lo o k in g strong h e a d in g in to o p e n e r a fte r succesful pre-season B y J e n n if e r L o r e n t z _________________

The Redmen soccer team is set to begin their bid for a sixth con­ secutive Canadian Inter-collegiate Athletics Association playoff berth on Wednesday at Sherbrooke. And with 16 o f 23 players returning from last season and a couple of strong rookies, H ead coach Pat R aim ondo is co n fid en t th at the team has the ability to go the dis­ tance.

“This team is as strong a team as I ’ve had since I’ve been here.

W e’ll see when the season plays out if it ’s stronger than the ‘96 team. We actually won [the CIAU National Championships] in ’97, but ’96 was our best team,” stated Raimondo. “Right now, I’m excit­ ed about the team because w e’re very strong and we have a lot of depth and character and personali­ ty-” The team has already began to demonstrate what it is capable of doing after opening the preseason with a 5-0 record.

The only question mark for the Redmen seems to be at the goalie position. Jason Forsyth, a CIAU second -team A ll-C an ad ian and four-time all-conference goalkeep­ er is still suffering from a knee

injury that he sustained last season.

Despite this, he is still slated to be M cG ill’s starting keeper for later

take him about two to three weeks before he gets up to game speed.

And we’re hoping by October he’ll

The Redm en look to kickstart their season with a win on W ednesday

on in the season.

“He has surgery scheduled for the 18th [of Septem ber]. W e’re hoping he’ll be ready for practice ten days after that. It’s going to

be in our lin e u p ,” ex p lain ed Raimondo.

In the meantime, Eddy Zuppel will assume the starting goalkeeper p o sitio n .

R o o k ie D ustin

D iedrickson, a n etm inder from Boston, also faces the possibility of being thrown into the spotlight.

Most exciting for M cG ill fans this season is the arrival of several promising rookies, such as midfielder M arc A skenasi and Kyle Graham who could m ake an im pact rig h t away.

Graham, who stan d s a good chance of cracking the starting lin e ­ up, looks like he has the m ost u p sid e o f the fresh m en group.

Coach Raim ondo b e liev es th a t he even has the skill to ev en tu ally becom e an A llI Canadian.

Heading into Patrick Fok the regular season opener this W ednesday against Sherbrooke, the team has a very positive outlook.

“In our province, it’s always the sam e,” R aim ondo said.

M artlets aim high d esp ite loss o f lead in g goal-scorer Team looks to im p ro v e on last year's b ro n ze m ed a l w in n in g p e rfo rm a n c e on Thursday night in Sherbrooke, style of play, Mounicot also values B y M a r k K err the new-look M artlets have little a strong defence. Last year, the Martlets Jived up to their coach’s M cGill soccer fans are fore­ time to savour their pre-season suc­ id eal allow ing ju s t eig h t goals cess. w arned: th e re is life a fte r Eva Striving to repeat as Melamed.

“This is the first and only conference champions and time I will answer this question,” return to the nationals, the said third year McGill Head Coach McGill players are looking M arc M o u n ico t in re sp o n se to forward to the challenges queries about how his team will which lie ahead.

“A new season deal with the loss of last year’s allCanadian strik er.“Eva M elam ed always brings new things, scored 50 percent of our goals so but I am very e x c ite d ,” said second-year defender everyone will step up.”

The Martlets stellar pre-season K risty F in n ey , recently play seem s to c o n firm C oach nam ed co-captain along Mounicot’s convictions about his with Julia Scrase.

One thing that won’t team’s ability to overcome the loss of Melamed, the CIAU goal-scor­ be new th is y ear is the ing leader, who’s spending the year style of play the Martlets employ. When approach­ studying abroad in Israel.

At the Old Four Tournament ing the game, M ounicot, 1999 QSSF Coach of the held la st w eekend at M olson Y ear, has a d e fin itiv e S tadium , the M artlets took the vision. championship.

“I will not change,” The w in cam e d e sp ite the explained the charismatic M artlets wlil face tough com petition absence of Amber Allen, a highly Patrick Fok touted rookie striker from British coach. “My objective is to against in 12 league games.

Columbia, and 1999 CIAU rookie have an entertaining team, playing McGill’s defence will have to offensive, quality soccer; but also of the year Alanna Maloney, due to be sharp as it faces a m yriad of winning soccer. The strongest part injuries. tough opponents in their confer­ of the team is having the talent and Both players will be counted on to pick up the goal-scoring slack quality to play soccer that doesn’t ence. “ B ish o p ’s and C o n co rd ia give up many chances.” created by Melamed’s departure. improved and Trois-Rivieres got a While promoting an attacking Kicking off its regular season

better coach making for equal chal­ len g es every w e e k ,” said M o u nicot. “W e need d iffic u lt games during the season in prepa­ ration for the play-offs, and we’ll have to be at our best.”

B esides strik ers M aloney and Allen, the Martlets look to contributions from several rook­ ies including midfielders Venessa Lussier and Catherine Lumsdem.

Clara Labrom, sister of 1st team conference all-star Sophie, one of McGill’s key returning veterans, will look to follow in her sib­ ling’s footsteps.

B esid es L abrom , the Martlets will be counting on ath­ letic m id field er Ju lia S crase, along w ith returning veterans Ashlee Gentry and Carly Dean for leadership.

They will hope to guide their team past their bronze medal fin­ ish at the nationals a year ago.

“Our team gave it all they had last year, we lacked some lu ck and e x p e rie n c e ,” said Mounicot. “When I started, I gave myself four years to win a champi­ onship. The goal is to get closer this year and improve.”

“Concordia is usually a good game, and we’ve built up a good rivalry w ith UQ A M . The unknow n is L aval U n iv ersity . They have a men’s team for the first time since ’76, so we don’t know exactly what to expect from them, but w e’ll be alright against them this year, I think.”

If they hope to achieve their ultimate goal of winning the CIAU cham pionship, the Redm en will also have to gain a mastery over their non-conference opponents.

“Out of the province, it’s out west, the Victorias and Albertas that give us a hard time.” explained Raimondo.

Overall, Raimondo expressed great enthusiasm when asked about the upcoming season.

“T he boys are going to do well. If the athletics department can give the team an atmosphere where they can perform, w e’re going to do well. But, the conditions have to be right. I ’m very excited. The boys are serious. They’re working hard. They worked hard in the off­ season. W e’re in a very good place right now. So, it’s just a question of whether the atmosphere stays posi­ tive and the energy stays positive.

And if the answer is yes, nobody’s going to stop us.”

C o m in g U p This

Week • Redm en football vs Q ueen’s, Saturday 1:30 PM at M olson Stadium.

• Redm en soccer vs UQTR. Friday 8:30 PM at M olson stadium • M artlet Soccer vs UQTR, Friday 6:30 PM at M olson stadium .

• R edbirds baseball vs Sherbrooke, Friday 5 PM doubleheader at TM R Field.

• M artlet Tennis vs.

Q ueen’s, Saturday at Tom linson Fieldhouse.

• Redm en Tennis vs Brock and York, Saturday 9 AM at Tom linson Fieldhouse.

• Cross C ountry Men and W omen. M cGill Open at M ount Royal Park..

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Redmen give Coach Baillie victory in final home opener Continued From Page 1 Intercepting Stinger's quarterback Jon Kronemeyer's throw on his own five with M cGill trailing 15-7, Lucchetta jaunted the full field virtual­ ly untouched until the end.

Exhausted by the time he reached the Stingers' 20 yard line, he mustered up just enough energy to fend off the Concordia defenders and cross the goal line as he was tackled.

Pumped up by Lucchetta's hero­ ics, the Redmen came out with some inspiring play right up until the end of the game.

McGill's offence came out of its doldrums to show some signs of life.

Quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt keyed the Redmen comeback with a short two yard touchdown run late in the third quarter which proved to be the winner after leading a sustained drive up-field.

"Lucchetta’s touchdown was one of the most important plays for us in a long time," said Redmen Head Coach Charlie Baillie thrilled to have won his 19th and final Shaughnessy Cup. "ft reminded me of his brother Andy who tossed a miracle 90 yard touchdown pass with 17 seconds remaining against Concordia some years back, ft was a great run and extremely timely, ft boosted the whole team."

Pumped up himself, Lucchetta continued his stellar play in the fourth quarter by coming up with two more picks to help seal the McGill victory.

The Stingers’ morale was crushed by that point, and Concordia could only manage a few meek attempts to even the score late in the game.

"I never ran so far with the ball or

The Redm en gave their fans a lot to ch eer abo ut on Saturday

had so many interceptions in a game," said Lucchetta whose 105 yard run was the longest interception return in McGill football history. "Credit goes to my teammates. I was just in the

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right place at the right time. They set it all up. We’ve got some real blue-chip players."

Forcing seven turnovers, the Redmen defence also got interceptions

from sophomore linebacker Mike Mahoney and rookie defensive back Felix-Antoine Martin.

Doubts concerning the strength of the Redmen secondary which was con­ sidered a major question mark heading into the season were largely quelled as a result of its performance.

"The Stingers were trying to pass a lot on us but we're a solid group of defensive backs," said Lucchetta. " Strachan Hartley played a particularly great game despite being sick."

With the huge monkey of their first win off their backs, the Redmen will look to raise their record to 2-0 against Queen's next week at home.

Despite the excitem ent of Saturday's game, every member of the team knows that there is a lot of room for improvement in all facets of the game.

The Redmen will need to display more polish, in order to prevent some of the lapses which ensured that the Concordia game was up in the air until the final whistle.

"You can chalk a lot of the mis­ takes up to the first game," said Redmen wide receiver Jeff Derman.

"The offence was sputtering in the beginning but we picked it up in the end. The win will give us a lot of con­ fidence. There's a special feeling on this team, and guys are really well focused."

Added Chevrier: "We need to work on things like communication on the field, special teams, and getting our timing fully in sync, but we've shown a lot of character so far. We showed that we could finish which we had trouble doing last year, and now we're

only going to get better."

That can only mean trouble for M cG ill’s future opponents in the Ontario-Quebec Inter Collegiate foot­ ball conference who will be facing what seems like a vastly improved Redmen team this year.

The big question for the Redmen will be if others can step up, like Lucchetta did on Saturday, and come up with the big play which so often decides the outcome of their games.

G am e notes ♦Quarterback Quandry: Redmen fans were scratching their heads when Phillippe Couillard came in to replace Josh Sommerfeldt at quarterback in the fourth quarter. While Couillard is a tal­ ent who deserves substantial playing time, Sommerfeldt was removed right after scoring the eventual game-win­ ning touchdown. After struggling early on, he was finally starting to play well, and starting to click with his receivers.

"Josh was a bit shaky in the first half, but he picked it up and got that big touchdown.," said Coach Baillie.

"We ju st felt it was time to give Couillard a chance. We'll see if that was a good decision." ♦W earing Watch: Recently named offensive co-captain along with running back Marc Freer, Ben Wearing, McGill's most explosive player on offence ammassed over 100 all-purpose yards yet again on Saturday. Wearing caught 7 balls for 81 yards, and had 115 return yards.

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Individual Stats Rushing: McG - Hoffmann 17-98. Freer 6-57.

Wearing 2-12, Tai 4-11, Couillard 2-9. Sommerfeldt 4-6: Con - Paquette 15-119. Martin 1-15, D’Ar^on 2-5, Kronemeyer 2-(-2), Laliberte l-(3 2).

Recieving: McG - Wearing 7 3 1 , Lanctot 6-77, Derman 2-22, Kohaykewyeh 2-19, Porco 1 3 , Freer M 3 ), Hoffman l-{-5): Con - Remus 6-98.

Charpentier 3 3 7 . Martin 3 4 1 , D’Aragon 1 3 .

Passing: McG - Sommerfeldt 14 -25 .1 59 yds, 0 td, 0 int,, Couillard 6-9, 38 yds. 0 td, 0 int ; Con Kronemeyer 1 3 3 5 , 215 yds. 1 TD, 5 int.

R e cip ie n t o f th e first ev er T rib gam e ball, L ucchetta had a hu ge ga m e on S atu rd ay. H e had three in t e r c e p t o in s a n d 141 r e tu r n y a rd s, in clu d in g a M cG ill record 105 yard tou ch d ow n retu rn .

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T he G olden G aels got trounced by Ottawa 35-1 in their season opener last Saturday.

Under the direction o f new head coach form erly o f Concordia Pat Sheahan, Queen’s will be looking to improve on its 2-6 record of a year ago.

The Gaels are most dan­ gerous at w ide-receiver where they boast an all-C anadian in James McLean, the CIAU leader in receptions and yards receiving in 1999.

Defensively, Queen’s is led by all-Canadian comerback Jason W immer who rounds out an experienced and deep starting line-up.

K e y s to M cG ill V icto ry:

T he R edm en need to carry the momentum from their victory ag ainst C o ncordia on Saturday.

M cG ill w ill need to work out its kinks on special teams, and get its offence click­ ing for a full four quarters as it is g o in g up ag ain st a ten acio u s Gaels defence.

The Redmen secondary will have to build on Lucchetta’s heroics against the Stingers, and pull togelher to stop McLean and Queen’s passing game.

L a st y e a r's re su lts:

McGill 30-Queen’s 28.

Conference Roundup The powerhouse teams dominated the opening week's action in the O-QIFC as the defending national cham­ pion Laval Rouge et Or thumped the Bishop’s Gaiters 32-0 at home and the Ottawa Gee-Gees, who were 8-0 in last year’s regular season, pummeled the Queen's Golden Gaels 35-1 in Kingston.

The Rouge et Or rolled up 423 yards of net offense, and held the Gaiters to 94 yards. Bishop’s only managed 16 yards on the ground in their lopsided loss. Laval back Mathieu Brassard had 101 yards and one TD on 13 car­ ries, while François Chapdelaine and Pascal Trudeau split the quarterbacking duties, going a combined 12 for 21 with 238 yards and 2 TDs. Gaiters' QB Clark Stewart relieved an ineffective Sylvain Desrochers (6-10, 22 yards) with a 5-8, 56 yard performance, yet couldn’t lead his charges into the end zone.

In Kingston, Ottawa quarterback and CIAU player of the year Phil Coté passed for 266 yards and three touch­ downs and rushed for one more major in the Gee-Gees’ rout of the Golden Gaels, which managed only 167 yards of net offense and gave up 468 to Ottawa. Coté also won OQIFC player of the week on offense. Montreal native Mike di Batista was one of Coté’s favorite targets, catching two of his TD passes and finishing the day with three catches for 110 yards. Queen's receiver James MacLean caught 8 passes for 70 yards.

Next week, Bishop’s (0-1) will host the Ottawa Gee-Gees (1-0). who were undefeated in the last regular sea­ son. Laval (1-0) hosts the Concordia Stingers (0-1) next Sunday.

Queen’s (0-1) travels to McGill’s Molson Stadium to take on the 1-0 Redmen next Saturday.

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Sydney here we come!

Th e c o m p reh e n s iv e "M cG ill g u id e " to th e X X V Ilth O ly m p ia d B y J a m e s E m p r in g h a m

The Sum m er O lym pics are fast approaching and sports fans everywhere are frantically making preparations. A quick run to the Dep for necessary munchies and beer and you’re ready to find that warm spot on the couch and live and die w ith ev ery tu rn in th e action, every moment of triumph,

every m om ent o f d esp air, and that’s only ball room dancing.

For eight McGill Olympians, however, preparing for the Sydney games is a little different. Years of hard work were on the agenda, and for these eight athletes much of that hard work was put in at McGill.

W h ile som e o f th em had long careers at McGill and others were only here for a short time, all have called McGill home at one time or

another. The athletes competing in Sydney who have McGill connec­ tions are Derek Porter, Alison Korn (Rowing), Keith Morgan (Judo), M arie-L uc A rpin (W ater Polo), Karine Legault, Craig Hutchinson, M arianne L im pert (Sw im m ing), and R obbyn H erm itage (B ad m in to n ). A dd sp ares Ben Storey and G enevieve M eredith (Rowing) and the McGill contin­ gent becomes ten. Of the eight ath­

D e re k P o rte r (R ow ing): Porter is a two-time Olympic medallist, a former world champi­ on, and an ex-McGill rower. After taking two years off to complete his requirem ents to becom e a chiro­ practor, he returned to rowing full­ tim e last season to win C anada’s firs t e v er Pan Am G am es gold m edal in m en’s single sculls, as well as a bronze medal in the world championships.

A lison Korn (R ow ing):

Korn has teamed with Emma Robinson to twice win world titles in pairs. Dissapointingly, Korn suf­ fered a back injury last season, which sidelined her for six weeks, and contributed to her losing her spot on C a n a d a ’s p airs team to Theresa Luke. She will, however be competing in eights at Sydney in a crew that has medalled the last four years at the World Championships.

Korn started rowing in her last year at McGill University where she also played basketball, and hockey.

letes competing, only two, Karine Legault and Marie-Luc Arpin are current McGill students, both tak­ ing the semester off to compete in Sydney. McGill is also represented in Sydney by swim coach Dick Johnson, a form er M cGill swim­ mer; Dick Pound, the former IOC (International Olympic Committee) vice president and current chancel­ lor of McGill; and Howard Stupp, the director of IOC Legal Affairs

M arie-Luc A rpin (W a te r Polo):

A rpin is cu rren tly studying mechanical engineering at McGill.

She has enjoyed a successful career with the national junior team from 1994 to 1997, and she was the top sco rer at the 1996 Ju n io r Pan Ams.Karine Legault (Swimming): Legault has qualified for the games in the 400 and 800 meter freestyle.

She recently transferred from the Université de Montreal and while she has not yet competed for McGill she will beginning in January.

Craig H utchinson (S w im m in g ): Hutchinson swam for McGill for 2 years before transferring to Arizona State. He recently dropped his personal best time for the men’s 100 fre e sty le to 50.14 at the Olympic trials. He started swim­ ming with the Point-Claire Club and he will be the first Olympic swim­ mer from the club since the late V icto r D avis sw am at the 1988 Olympics.

K eith M o rg a n (Judo):

M a ria n n e L im p e rt (S w im m in g ):

Morgan has medalled at eight of nine international meets over the last tw o years, including a gold medal at the 1999 World University Games. At the worlds last year he hyper-extended his elbow, but with an Olympic spot at stake he gutted out his last two bouts with only one arm.

Limpert swam only one season with McGill before transferring to UBC. She is, how ever, arguably Canada’s best chance for a swim­ ming gold. She took home silver in Atlanta after placing just behind the drug aided M ichelle Smith in the 200 individual medley. She is the o ld e st m em ber o f C a n a d a ’s Olympic swimming squad.

R obbyn H e rm ita g e (B ad m in to n ):

K arine L eg au lt (S w im m in g ):

H erm itag e w as n o t only a McGill student, but a coach as well, coaching the M cG ill B adm inton team last year. She is now a coach at the historic M ontreal A thletic Association.

Legault has qualified for the gam es in the 400 and 800 m eter freestyle. She recently transferred from the U niversité de M ontreal and while she has not yet competed for M cGill she will beginning in January.

and former McGill wrestler. This brings the McGill contingent to an impressive 13 people. Legend has it (verified of course) that even the world’s second fastest man, Bruny S u rin took a sin g le co u rse at McGill years ago. In addition to the C an ad ian co n tin g e n t, cu rre n t M cG ill stu d en t S eb astian P ad d in g to n is co m p etin g for Trinidad and Tobago in swimming.

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2000 Redbirds look for

SPORTS briefs R ugby successful last w e e k

spot in Nationals B y N eil S c h n u r b a c h

The Redmen rugby team concluded their preseason with a 22-22 tie against Carleton in the Naismith Cup final. Scoring tries for M cGill were Mike H ershfiela, Robin Machlachlan, and Graham Hnatiw. Kicker Pat Walden scored a drop goal and Rom Severino had two converts, as McGill retains the Naismith Cup because it won last year.

The Redmen conclude their preseason with a 1-1-1 record.

The Martlets rugby team, dressing six Scoring each a pair of tries were Jennifer Gushue, Patricia Jaworski, Michelle Perlman, and Julie Brisebois. Gushue had the winner.

Kicker Stephanie Lynam had 1 try and seven converts for a 19-point outing. The Martlets’ next game is on September 13 at Ottawa.

M cG ill-A did as a th le te s o f th e w e e k

Loris Lucchetta of Welland, Ont., and Julie Brisebois of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., are the McGill-Adidas athletes of the week for the period ending Sept. 10.

Brisebois, a 21-year-old physical educa­ tion junior, scored a pair of tries in McGill’s 69-5 victory over B ishop’s on Sunday.

Recently named to Canadian national rugby program, the 5-foot-10 inside centre was voted rookie of the year in the Quebec University Rugby League last season and earned all-conference status.

Lucchetta, a 23-year-old geography major, made three interceptions for 141 yards in his first career start, including a school record 105-yard return for TD to help McGill defeat Concordia 20-15 in the 32nd annual Shaughnessy Cup game at Molson Stadium on Saturday. In addition to being named M cG ill-Adidas athlete-of-the-w eek, Lucchetta was named Puma player of the game by Global TV, and OQIFC and CIAU Radically Canadian defensive player of the week.

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L ik e M o ses in th e O ld Testament, the -McGill Redbirds b a s e b a ll sq u a d has seen the P ro m ised L and but has n ev er been able to enter it.

D e s p ite c o m in g extremely close for the last few y ears, M cG ill has yet to v a n ­ q u ish a rc h -riv a l L av al, so m e­ thing they must do to earn a trip to the CIAU nationals.

If the Redbirds are going to get over that hump, they’ll have to do it w ith o u t som e o f th e ir stars from last year.

Gone are Brad Pelletier and Shiraz Rehman, both solid hitters from last year. But the player that McGill will miss most is last season’s MVP Craig McFadzean.

M cF adzean’s pow er hitting bat and veteran lead ersh ip w ill be difficult to replace.

R e tu rn in g p la y e rs such as catcher Cameron Davies, second b a se m a n D an n y S to b b e r and s h o rts to p P at G o n s a lv e s are resp o n sib le fo r p ick in g up the slack.

One definite strength of this y e a r ’s R e d b ird s sq u a d is its pitching staff.

Ace Geoff Pertsch is return­ ing fo r his fo u rth y ear, w h ile Kabeer Burman, Drew Reid and Paul Bonner are set to begin their second year with the club. This group of pitchers was one of the reasons that M cGill was able to am ass an 11-3 record last year, good enough for second place in

their tough conference.

M c G ill M a n a g e r E rn ie D 'A lessandro is looking forward to w o rk in g w ith th is ta le n te d bunch of hurlers once again.

“The pitchers are one of the b e tte r a s p e c ts o f th e b all club,’’said D ’A lessandro, “Each o f our guys w ill have a y e a r’s m ore e x p erien ce and th at w ill really help them out.”

The infield will be another stren g th on the R edbirds team this year. Gonsalves and Stobber make up one of the most form i­ d ab le k e y sto n e com bos in the league. B oth play ers can also h o ld th e ir ow n w ith th e b at.

G onsalves is the lead -o ff hitter and the offensive catalyst for the team . P ow er-h ittin g first-b aseman Reid solidifies the left side o f the infield at first base when he isn’t pitching.

T he o u tfie ld s itu a tio n is slightly more up in the air.

B e sid e s n e w c o m e r C ra ig Betts, who looks like a mainstay in c e n tre field , and R yan A vey w ho w ill probably see m ost o f the p lay in g tim e in rig h tfie ld , th e re a re so m e u n c e r ta in tie s heading into the season.

R ed b ird s s ta rt y e a r on w ro n g fo o t The Redbirds started off the season on the wrong foot with a disappointing 1-2 record in the Labatt Fifty Classic tournam ent o v e r the w eek en d at O ly m p ic

Stadium. The second game of the tournament, a 10-0 loss to bitter rival Laval, was the first official g am e o f th e r e g u la r se a so n .

M cGill struggled to hit the ball against Laval tallying only three hits the whole way through.

D ’A le s s a n d ro w as d is a p ­ pointed with his team ’s lack of offensive production in the Laval game. “ L a v a l p u t th e ir p itc h e r V ezina out there and he w asn’t th ro w in g m uch. L ast y ear, we sco red five q u ick runs ag ain st him and knocked him out of the game, “ said D ’Alessandro, “This time we just couldn’t hit the ball.

It was discouraging, but I ’m sure the bats will come around.’

D ’A lessandro believes that the Redbirds’ slow start this sea­ son is due to som e ru st on the part o f th eir players. Only six players played com petitive ball during the summer, and it is quite evident in the team ’s play. The d e fe n s e is n o t as sh a rp as it should be and the bats have been slow to com e around. D espite th e se s h o rtc o m in g s, M c G ill’s M anager remains optimistic.

“T he la st few years w e ’ve come out of the gate really quick­ ly and fizzled at the end of the s e a s o n ,” n o tes D ’A le ssa n d ro . “ T h is y e a r w e ’re h o p in g to change that trend. We may have s ta rte d o ff slo w ly b u t w e ’re going to peak at the right time”.

"How cliché!"

They’re out there. Patiently w a itin g , and fu lly c a p a b le o f aw akening any se lf-re sp e c tin g sports fan up in a cold sweat, dur­ ing the m ost peaceful o f nights.

I ’m re fe rrin g o f c o u rse to the dreaded sports cliché. They tend to dw ell m ostly w ithin the safe co n fin es o f late night highlight shows, sports tele­ casts, and sports talk radio, and if you look hard enough you might even have found one within the pages of this p u b lic a tio n m any, m any years ago. Sure, they’ve been around since the first Gladiators stepped inside the Coliseum hun­ dreds of years ago and gave “their 110%” but in this age of 24 hour sports coverage they seem to be more prominent than ever.

F or anyone w ho is not yet fam iliar w ith the sports cliche, getting acquainted is as easy as tuning in to the end of the game, any game. After just pulling out a thrilling last second victory, the w inning q u arterback notes that “We played well as a team today, and really gave it our all when it mattered most. I ’m really proud of the way w e’re coming together as a team.”-or was that the losing quarterback? And therein lies the problem with the cliché. It doesn’t tell you much about what really

w o u ld n ’t have lo st th irte e n to n o th in g !” T h o u g h th is is not always a rule. When a 400 pound offensive linemen responds that, “we didn’t play w ell today,” he probably isn’t secretly comment­ ing on the current socio-political clim ate in E ast T im or. In this case w h a t he p ro b a b ly m ean s is th a t th ey ju s t didn’t play well that day.

O u t o f L e ft-F ie ld The real key to coping with cliches is embracing Jam es E m p rin g h a m them. At least in sports as opposed to say politics, the clich es are k ep t sim p le.

Why pretend there is room he responded to a reporter’s ques­ fo r deep in tro sp e c tio n w hen a tio n on his day o u t th e re , by co m m en t is m ade on b a se b a ll answering that he had enjoyed a gam e. As w ell, because every particularly good breakfast and po ssib le answ er in the E nglish that traffic was light on the way to language has surely been articu­ th e b a llp a rk .

T h is fo rm o f la te d at one tim e o r a n o th e r, answering is not likely to catch on im portance should be place on how things are said, not what is anytime soon.

Alas, are we stuck in a sports said. A nd th ere are not m any world where we know the answers do m ain s in w hich answ ers are before they’re given? O f course delivered more colourfully than in sports. So let’s stop making cyni­ not. F irst o f all, clich es often have a h id d en m ean in g w hich cal comments on the comments of m ay not be reco g in zed at first others, and celebrate the univer­ glance. The key is cracking the sally understood medium of the code. When a hockey player says, sports cliché. After all, when the “W e ju s t d id n ’t get the break s going gets tough, i t ’s going to to d ay ,” w hat he m ight actually give it everthing it’s got. Got it? m ean is th a t, “I f the o v erp aid , egotistical cry baby that I’m play­ ing with knew how to pass, we

happened.

The solution? A thletes and writers could become more literal in th e ir re s p o n s e s ra th e r th an resorting perceived cliches. New York Mets pitcher A1 Leiter illus­ trated an exam ple of the literal response when a few seasons ago

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EURO 2000: European Football's highest honour

By Edvard G

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This past sum m er, Belgium and the Netherlands played host to the largest and most prestigious European football tournament on the planet known as EURO 2000.

All participating teams qualified for the past two years in order to earn a spot in the event. This tour­ nam ent is second in im portance only to the World Cup and is held every four years.

The last tournament was in 1996 in England, where Germany was crowned cham pion, beating the Czech Republic in the final at Wembley.

P lan s fo r th e e v e n t w ere under way several years ago. Still, Belgian organizers encountered preparatory difficulties, as they had to revamp many of their sta­ diu m s to c o n fo rm to U E F A ’s tournament capacity requirements (30,000 m inim um capacity). In Belgium the venues of Charleroi, L iè g e , B ru g es an d th e R oi Baudoin Stadium in Brussels had to be renovated and expanded. On the other side of the border, the D utch seem ed m ore o rg an ized and better equipped. Their stadi­ ums in A m sterdam , R otterdam , Arnhem and Eindhoven needed far less touch-up work. Rotterdam was chosen to host the final.

T he firs t ro u n d w as sad ly marred by hooliganism, mostly by English ‘supporters’ who took to the s tre e ts o f C h a rle ro i and Brussels in order to fight police, opposition supporters, or simply vandalize surrounding buildings.

At one point, the incidents were serious enough for UEFA to th re a te n an E n g lish e x p u lsio n from the tournament if the thugs w o u ld not c e a se th e c rim in a l behavior. For m any, E n g lan d ’s biggest moment of the event came on June 17th when they beat eter­ nal riv a ls G erm an y by 1-0 in Charleroi for the first tim e in a major tournament since 1966.

The quarterfin als began on Ju n e 2 4 th w ith o n ly S p a in , F ra n c e , th e N e th e rla n d s , Y u g o sla v ia , Ita ly , R o m an ia, Turkey and Portugal left to fight for the title. The first of the two quarter final days saw Italy and P o rtu g a l e a s ily d is p o s e o f Romania and Turkey respectively.

The second day offered far more entertainment for the neutral fan as the N e th e rla n d s o u tp la y e d Y ugoslavia by 6-1. France beat Spain in an absolutely heart stop­ ping encounter that saw Spanish hero Raul G onzalez m iss a last m in u te p o te n tia lly e q u a liz in g penalty.

On June 28th in Brussels the

French booked their spot in the final as they beat Portugal in a gam e m a rre d by c o n tro v e rsy .

“Les Bleus” won the encounter in overtim e on a disputed penalty c a ll se e in g s ta r m id fie ld e r Zinedine Zidane tucking away the e n su in g s p o t-k ic k . D e d ic a te d McGill students found themselves rushing through their June course finals in order to catch the end of the game live. The next day Italy and Holland squared up in what would turn out to be an astonish­ ing encounter. Down to ten men e a rly , th e Ita lia n s m anaged to keep a stalem ate throughout the m atch and all the way through overtime. 120 minutes of tactical attrition saw the Dutch miss two penalties, hit the post and come close on several other occasions.

The nerve-racking penalty shootouts saw the entire Peel Pub hanging on to each moment like it was the last breath o f fresh air b e fo re b e in g su b m e rg e d into water. With help from goalkeeper Francesco Toldo who ended the m atch w ith three penalty saves, the Italians moved into the final.

T h is w as a se n s a tio n fo r the w h o le w o rld o f fo o tb a ll and somewhat deserved, just because of the way the Italian team man­ ag ed to k eep th e d o m in a tin g Dutch attack at bay.

A few days later the Italians to o k th e fie ld in R o tte rd a m against W orld Champion France.

This proved to be a sensational match. Marco D elvecchio’s 55th minute goal gave the Italians the lead and they h e ld on to th at advantage all the way into injury tim e . T h a t is w h en su b s titu te Sylvain Wiltord scored the equal­ izer sending the game to Golden Goal extra time. The French con­ fid e n c e w as b o o s te d and the Italians seem ed unquestionably dem oralized and it took only 13 m in u te s fo r th e F re n ch to p u t away the winner.

T he E u ro p e a n C h a m p io n ­ ships bring together fans from all over the world. Many non-traditio n a l fan s tak e tim e o ff from their every day schedules in order to catch some of the action and support their country or favorite team. This is why a country like Italy often gets dragged down by heavy criticism for their continu­ ous defensive play, judged to be ‘boring’ by neutral spectators but ‘e f fe c tiv e ’ by Ita lia n fans and players. The most popular sport in the world keeps growing as each m ajor tournam ent rolls around.

N ext up is the W o rld C up c o ­ hosted by Japan and South Korea in 2002. Q ualifying has already begun worldwide.

CIAU: more bucks for jocks M o st schools n o t y e t a b le to increase scholarship dollars year, all ath letic aw ard dollars B y Jo n a t h a n C o l f o r d The O UA sto ry University athletic directors across Canada have one message for student-athletes hoping to reap the benefits of new increased limits on athletic bursaries: “Don’t expect more money (at least not just yet).”

The Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union is the national gov­ erning body of university sport in Canada. In June, the CIAU’s mem­ ber institutions agreed to increase the amount a stu d en tathlete may

would be split between men and women, proportional to the number of student-athletes of each.

Th e q u es tio n o f a th ­ letic scholarships M ount A llison U n iv ersity ’s athletic director Larry Drover rais­

receive from $1,500 in any one a c a d e m ic year to the full amount o f tu itio n plus all compulsory fees. The

s t ude nt

athletes may receive the aw ard only a fte r successfully com pleting two sem es­ ters in school.

T o ensure that no one ch e a ts, all financial assistance o f any kind awarded to any CIAU athlete has to be reported at the end of every season.

Entering students can receive an academic scholarship with an athletic component by meeting one of two conditions: an 80-percent average in CEGEP or high school, or by com pleting two university semesters with a 70-percent aver­ age and passing at least 18 credits’ worth of courses.

While it is not expected that the new lim its w ill lau n ch an N C A A -style athletic recru itin g drive, bringing hordes of illiterate jocks to Canadian university sports, the m ove does m ean m ore fundraising is on the horizon for CIAU schools.

“There’s much more pressure on those who don’t fundraise to get into the game,” says Tom Allen, director o f athletics at B ishop’s University and past president of the CIAU. It’s part of the business of run­ ning an intercollegiate athletics program in C anada, adds the University of British Colum bia’s athletic director, Bob Philip. “[Intercollegiate athletics in C anada] is becom ing more and more o f a business: we have to attract people to our games.

“From a perception point of view people have been calling us now [that they believe the scholar­ ships are possible].

“Also, they got CIAU on the record supporting the awards - it was m ore o f a loophole before, now it’s legitimate,” Philip says.

Also approved was a five-year plan to equalize the allotm ent of athletic awards to both men and women. By the end o f the fifth

An issue which could particu­ larly affect McGill is the difference in regulations between the CIAU and the O n tario U n iv ersity Athletics association. In the OUA, student-athletes are only eligible for the athletic com ponent of an award at the beginning of their sec­ ond year, in September. According to the new CIAU regulations, stu­ dent-athletes could receive the aw ard after complet­ ing tw o univ e r s i t y s e m e s te rs , th at is, in A p ril. So a

es the question that frequently aris­ es w hen the C IA U d iscu sses extending athletic scholarships.

“How do we ju stify giving tuition and fees to a 1.0 or 2.0 [stu­ dent-athlete] while an 85 percent student gets nothing?” Drover asks.

“Our hockey program costs $200,000. Our 20 players are each getting $10,000 to stay in the game they love.”

D rover su p p o rts the plan, which places restrictions on the amounts athletes can get to tuition and fees. McGill’s athletic director Bob Dubeau, another supporter, would also like limits to awards by sport.

D ubeau supports aw ards in order to help student-athletes cope with the costs of tuition while often not being able to work part-time jobs because of the time they must put into training. “ If som eone co u ld get an award because they were a musi­ cian, then clearly someone should get an award if that person was a very talented athlete because it is a skill.

“Our policy and philosophy at McGill for intercollegiate sports is that, for the Level 1 and Level 2 teams, not the clubs, that the most im portant thing is to be able to develop to one’s potential at an elite level. In other words, w e’re not playing for fun. W e’re playing at the highest level possible. It’s not recreation we’re doing. This is hard work to try to get to that level.

“We look at it as being similar to an academic course in that our coaches are teachers and w e’re teaching physical skills for people to get to the level they wish to get to.”

a tten d in g a non-OUA school could receiv e one aw ard in A pril and a n o th er in September.

M cG ill’s football, bas­ k e tb a ll, and hockey teams compete in an OUA confer­ ence so they m ust com ply with the OUA regulations or face being kicked out.

Therese Quigley, OUA presi­ dent and director of athletics and recreation at McMaster, says that any changes to OUA regulations would be effective immediately.

However, the changes can only be made at the O U A ’s semi-annual meetings, in December and May. Any motion to change the reg­ ulations would be presented at a meeting in October and voted on in December or May. “It’s really hard to tell until we meet [in October]. The December meeting will give us a clear indica­ tion,” Quigley says.

The playing field[subhead] The increases are not expected to affect the playing field much unless more blue-chip prospects opt to remain in Canada instead of attending American schools. Allen does not expect that the increases w ill slow the “braw n d rain ” o f C an ad ian ath letes to NCAA Division 1 schools, but could have an effect on retaining those stu­ dents opting for D ivision 2 or 3 schools. Even though Bishop’s is a small school, with an enrollment of about 2,000 students, Allen is opti­ mistic about the plan.

“We would be able to help 20 ath letes w hich is not bad fo r a sm all school like u s.” “I ’m not fearful of this at all,” he continues.

“Is it more work? Absolutely. Is it the way to go? Absolutely.”

“Usually if [student-athletes] have 80% they’re smart enough to stay in Canada,” Charlie Baillie, M cG ill Redm en football coach, says tongue-in-cheek.

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